Replication Data for: L'acquisition des voyelles nasales en français : une étude acoustique et perceptive sur la prononciation des apprenants néerlandophones belges (doi:10.18710/JYS0Z1)
(Replication Data for: Acquiring nasal vowels in French: an acoustic and perceptual study on Belgian Dutch learners’ pronunciation)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: L'acquisition des voyelles nasales en français : une étude acoustique et perceptive sur la prononciation des apprenants néerlandophones belges

Identification Number:

doi:10.18710/JYS0Z1

Distributor:

DataverseNO

Date of Distribution:

2024-11-21

Version:

1

Bibliographic Citation:

De Haes, Hanna; Lauwers, Peter; Simon, Ellen, 2024, "Replication Data for: L'acquisition des voyelles nasales en français : une étude acoustique et perceptive sur la prononciation des apprenants néerlandophones belges", https://doi.org/10.18710/JYS0Z1, DataverseNO, V1

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: L'acquisition des voyelles nasales en français : une étude acoustique et perceptive sur la prononciation des apprenants néerlandophones belges

Alternative Title:

Replication Data for: Acquiring nasal vowels in French: an acoustic and perceptual study on Belgian Dutch learners’ pronunciation

Identification Number:

doi:10.18710/JYS0Z1

Authoring Entity:

De Haes, Hanna (Ghent University)

Lauwers, Peter (Ghent University)

Simon, Ellen (Ghent University)

Other identifications and acknowledgements:

Simon, Ellen

Other identifications and acknowledgements:

Lauwers, Peter

Other identifications and acknowledgements:

De Haes, Hanna

Producer:

Ghent University

Software used in Production:

R

Software used in Production:

MS Excel

Software used in Production:

Praat

Software used in Production:

PsychoPy

Distributor:

DataverseNO

Distributor:

The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing)

Access Authority:

De Haes, Hanna

Depositor:

De Haes, Hanna

Date of Deposit:

2024-01-28

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.18710/JYS0Z1

Study Scope

Keywords:

Arts and Humanities, French, Dutch, nasal vowels, intelligibility, L2 phonology, production

Abstract:

<b> Dataset abstract </b> <p>This dataset contains two types of data on the production accuracy of French nasal vowels realized by L1 Belgian Dutch learners, i.e. listener-based and acoustic measures. By focusing on these two measures, we shed light on two different dimensions of production accuracy, i.e. vowel intelligibility and phonetic nativelikeness. First, this dataset contains acoustic data of 20 L1 Belgian Dutch speakers and 12 L1 Northern Metropolitan French speakers (Carignan, 2014). Vowels were produced in high-frequency monosyllabic French words during a reading task. F1 and F2 values were calculated for the midpoint of each vowel and normalized using Lobanov z-score calculation both across and within speaker groups. Secondly, this dataset contains perceptual data of 71 L1 French speakers respectively representing the Ile-de-France region (France) and Liège (Belgium). Participants performed an online identification task that assessed both listeners’ actual understanding of non-native accented nasal vowels and their category goodness judgments on a 5-point scale (1 = "bad", 5 = "good").</p>

<b> Article abstract </b> <p>This paper examines the production of French nasal vowels by Belgian Dutch learners. It is innovative in that it combines the analysis of ‘intelligibility’ of non-native accented vowels, assessed by listeners representing Paris and Liège, with an acoustic analysis focusing on ‘phonetic nativeness’. The stimuli were high-frequency monosyllabic words produced by 20 Belgian Dutch learners. The results indicate that the intelligibility of non-native accented nasals is rather high, except for the /ɑ̃/-vowel. Furthermore, the two listener groups do not differ in their actual understanding of vowels, except for the /ɛ̃/-vowel, which is identified more often by listeners representing the Liège region. This difference may be related to the impact of (i) L1 variation or (ii) Belgian listeners’ familiarity with Dutch-accented speech on speech perception. Finally, the study shows that it is not so much nasality itself that poses production difficulties for Dutch-speaking learners, but the interaction with vowel quality.</p>

Date of Collection:

2023-01-2023-04

Country:

Belgium, Belgium, France

Geographic Coverage:

East-Flanders, Liège Province, Île-de-France

Kind of Data:

phoneme identification and evaluation data

Kind of Data:

acoustic data

Methodology and Processing

Mode of Data Collection:

Online vowel identification and evaluation task

Sources Statement

Data Access

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The file will be made available once the related publication is published.

<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a>

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Citation

Title:

De Haes, H., Lauwers P., Simon, E. (accepted). L'acquisition des voyelles nasales en français : une étude acoustique et perceptive sur la prononciation des apprenants néerlandophones belges [Acquiring nasal vowels in French: An acoustic and perceptual study on Belgian Dutch learners' pronunciation]. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique.

Bibliographic Citation:

De Haes, H., Lauwers P., Simon, E. (accepted). L'acquisition des voyelles nasales en français : une étude acoustique et perceptive sur la prononciation des apprenants néerlandophones belges [Acquiring nasal vowels in French: An acoustic and perceptual study on Belgian Dutch learners' pronunciation]. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique.

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0_README_Acquiring_nasal_vowels_in_French.txt

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README file with general and methodological information about the study, as well as an overview of the data and files.

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1_Anvif_InformedConsent_ProjectOverview.pdf

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Informed Consent Sheet, Questionnaire, Project Overview.

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2_Anvif_perception.csv

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Participant responses for the phoneme identification and evaluation task.

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3_Anvif_production_within_groups.csv

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Normalized acoustic values.

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4_Anvif_production_across_groups.csv

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Normalized acoustic values.

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5_Acquiring_nasal_vowels_in_French.Rmd

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R Notebook and data analysis.

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6_Anvif_production_L1.txt

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Acoustic measurements.

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7_Anvif_production_L2.txt

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Acoustic measurements.

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8_Anvif_production_L1_L2.txt

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Acoustic measurements.

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9_Anvif_Data_Protection_Impact_Assessment.pdf

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A brief assessment of whether open publication of the Dataset is aligned with legal and research-ethical regulations and guidelines.

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