D'une ouverture de la voyelle /ɛ/ en finale absolue en français québécois : analyse acoustique et perceptive
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Abstract
Cette contribution est consacrée à l’ouverture du /ɛ/ en finale absolue, un phénomène phonétique réputé être en déclin en français québécois et caractéristique de locuteurs âgés, peu scolarisés, issus de milieux populaires et s’exprimant en situation de communication informelle. Une analyse acoustique de 480 voyelles /ɛ/ issues de la parole formelle de 40 jeunes étudiants universitaires originaires des centres urbains de Saguenay et de Québec révèle toutefois que le phénomène est encore bien vivant en français québécois et qu’il est plus fréquent chez les locuteurs de Saguenay, une tendance validée auditivement par accord inter-juges. Les résultats d’un test de discrimination et d’identification mené auprès de 26 étudiants universitaires originaires de ces deux mêmes villes indiquent que les auditeurs naïfs de Saguenay semblent moins sensibles à la variation et moins enclins à juger de l’origine géographique d’un locuteur à partir de sa prononciation de la voyelle /ɛ/ en fin de mot. \n \nThis contribution focuses on the lowering of the /ɛ/ vowel in absolute word-final position in Quebec French. \nThis phonetic phenomenon is said to be on the decline and mainly produced by older, less educated speakers from lower social classes, and in informal situations. We extracted 480 /ɛ/ from a highly formal oral corpus produced by 40 young undergraduate students, all from Saguenay and Quebec City. A detailed acoustical analysis of these tokens reveals that this phenomenon is still very much alive among young speakers and more frequent in Saguenay than in Quebec City. An inter-judge agreement indicates that this phenomenon is also perceived. Moreover, discrimination and identification tasks conducted with 26 undergraduate students, also from Saguenay and Quebec City, show that Saguenay naïve listeners seem to be less sensitive to variation and less likely to evaluate a speaker’s origin based on his/her pronunciation of word-final /ɛ/ than those from Quebec City.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".