Etude de l'influence de la variété dialectale sur la vitesse d'articulation en français (Dialectal Effect on Articulation Rate in French) [in French]

______________________________________________________ Dialectal Effect on Articulation Rate in French This paper compares the articulation rate of 3 distinct varieties of French: Parisian French (hereafter PA); Swiss French spoken in Neuchâtel (hereafter NE) and French spoken by Swiss German speakers (hereafter CH) who have been living in a French speaking environment (in Neuchâtel) for 20 years at least. The objective is twofold: to assess the existence of differences in articulation rate between native French speakers of a standard variety (PA) and native French speakers of a regional variety (NE); and to address whether the non-native speakers (CH) exhibit a different behaviour regarding articulation rate compared with the native speakers of the correspondent variety (NE). Besides the “dialectal” factor, this study takes into account further factors that may have an influence on articulation rate: age, gender, speech style (reading or conversation) and number of syllables within the Accentual Phrase. MOTS-CLES : français dialectal, français L2, vitesse d’articulation, syntagme accentuel.