Influence of primary and secondary accent on the duration of French vowels in production of Czech and French speakers
2023
Abstract
This French-Czech contrastive study deals with the duration of French vowels in the production of French speakers and Czech learners of French. The considerable differences between the vowel duration in the Czech and French language systems led to four research hypotheses.
Based on recordings of the text being read, the analysis examines not only the influence of primary and secondary accent (final accent, initial accent and accent d'insistance) on the duration of French vowels, but also the type of syllable in which these vowels are found. The results confirm that the phonetic-phonological habits that Czech speakers apply in their mother tongue have a considerable influence on the production of the language being acquired, here French.