The XY axes in the first chart are F1-F2 formants, which are related to the frequency of the vowels. The XY axes of the 2nd chart correspond to the XY position of the tongue in the mouth and it is ...
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Words ending on i/u, spoken with (IPA) [ɪç] – is there a system?
Business EditorsLook up “phrase-final vowel devoicing” for scientific articles on the subject. It’s a relatively recent phenomenon in European French, whereby the vocal folds stop vibrating halfway through a vowel at the end of an utterance. Since the tongue is still ...
How are the nasalized vowel sounds in “enfant” pronounced?
Business EditorsActually to pronounce “enfant” you can put your tongue completely into sleeping mode. Don’t try to pronounce any “hard n” or “m” or other consonant except for for the “f”. Other than that, what the comments under your post says ...
Is “e” always pronounced like /e/ before ss?
Business EditorsEither /e/ or /ɛ/ but very rarely /ə/ indeed. This is true for every E located before any double consonant. Despite the accented pronunciation, there is never an actual acute, grave or circumflex accent on these E’s, no exception. On ...
Pronunciation of E in je, le, ce, ne, que
Business Editors/ə/ is the pronunciation given by TLFi, so in theory it should be used. However, in practice, this may change to /ø/ or /œ/ depending on the speaker and the context in which the schwa appears. This is discussed in ...
Why the pronunciation of “Monsieur” as “Missieur”?
Business EditorsThe pronunciation of the word is indeed the irregular [məsjø], not naively [mɔ̃sjœr] (though historically it seems to have been the very first way of saying it, then [mɔsjø], then the modern one). I never heard the [misjø] you’re referring ...
C’est quoi l’effet quand l’enchaînement crée des syllables ouvertes ?
Associations EditorsLa règle pour /o/~/ɔ/ n’est pas parfaite: on dit bien hôtel avec /o/ mais hôpital avec /ɔ/ (c’est un mot qui aurait gagné à être corrigé avec la réforme de 1990), et l’accent québécois de l’ouest dit généralement poteau avec ...
Difference in pronunciation of /ø/, /ə/, and /œ/
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Like many native French speakers, I pronounce the vowels of le, peu and veux identically. The difference is that the former is caduc (might be skipped depending on the context) while the other ones aren’t. As XouDo reply shows, not ...
Mots pour la prononciation des voyelles
Business EditorsEn phonétique, le trait significatif de distinction entre é [e] et è [ɛ] est appelé aperture. On appelle généralement l’aperture de [e] semi-fermée et celle de [ɛ] semi-ouverte. Pour plus de détails voir wikipedia:en et wikipédia:fr. Ces termes restent toutefois ...
La différence entre “deux ans” et “douze ans”
Associations EditorsThere is a definite difference between those two sounds, unless the locutor is pronouncing them in a very slack fashion. The phonetic vowel corresponding to “eu” in “deux” is pronounced “ø”. Here is a series of pronunciations across France: https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/deux#Prononciation; ...