Comparaison du timing inter-gestuel des voyelles nasales en français de Marseille et de Tournai

This paper provides a comparative gestural account of
nasal vowels in Southern French (Marseille) and in
Belgian French (Tournai). Timing measurements based on
acoustic data confirm a different temporal organisation of
the gestures between the two dialects. We also report on
statistical comparisons between phonetic events (such as
duration of the SF 'nasal appendix' vs. duration of a
typical nasal consonant, duration of the oral consonant
following an oral vs. a nasal vowel...) that help to confront
competing hypotheses concerning the underlying
phonological representation of SF nasal vowels.