Perception et production de /y/ et /u/ en français L2 chez l'apprenant anglophone débutant : étude de cas de leur catégorisation chez quatre locuteurs

Abstract

4 AmE speakers, namely whether it is thought of as a similar or as a dissimilar sound by L2 learners (Major 2001, Flege 2002, Birdsong 2003, Colantoni, Steele, & Escudero 2015). It discusses the results of the experiment that was carried out, for which 4 American university students were recorded in an early stage of their L2 French learning and participated in a perceptual discrimination test. 4 French native speakers then participated in a perceptual assimilation test in order to judge the AE speakers' productions. The influencing factors on the production of French high rounded vowels are also analysed.