Lithuanian and French Sounds: Comparative Analysis of Articulatory Features
| Autor: | Loïc Boizou, Asta Kazlauskienė |
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| Jazyk: | němčina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language History LC8-6691 lithuanian 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 021107 urban & regional planning Applied linguistics consonant 02 engineering and technology Lithuanian Second-language acquisition Special aspects of education Language and Linguistics Linguistics language.human_language language Geography. Anthropology. Recreation french 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences pronunciation vowel |
| Zdroj: | Darnioji daugiakalbystė, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 173-196 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2335-2027 |
| Popis: | Summary The aim of this article is to analyze the differences between Lithuanian and French sounds and to provide a general outlook of the Lithuanian articulatory phonetics mainly intended for French speakers. Such a comparative analysis is relevant because (a) there is no consistent equivalent between written and spoken language, even in Lithuanian, which has a relatively young written language, (b) the international phonetic alphabet does not always accurately reflect differences in pronunciation, (c) the contrastive perspective helps learners to focus on differences that could be unnoticed. Besides the articulatory aspects, the orthographic issues where the spoken form cannot be directly deduced from the written form by a simple relation from grapheme to sound but depends on the graphemic context (mainly related to some assimilation processes) are given a special attention. The questions that remain controversial between Lithuanian phoneticians (such as the retroflex status of the phonetic counterparts of <š> and <ž>) are also mentioned. The comparative analysis shows that the two systems exhibit significant differences: most sounds are not shared. Nevertheless, differences are often slight, so that it is more an issue of orthoepics. Attention should be paid to the differences in the duration and qualitative characteristics of long and short vowels and the relation of graphemes to sounds. From the point of view of consonants, [], [r, rj], [x, ] are problematic, their pronunciation must be learned separately. The pronunciation of palatalized consonants as simple consonants, and not as clusters with [j] as the second element, is also challenging for French speakers. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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