The present investigation deals with regional variation and articulation rate in French. The
articulation rate in read speech and in spontaneous speech was examined in seven variants …

La base de données orales de français de Suisse romande (OFROM) contient des
transcriptions d'enregistrements auxquels ont participé des locuteurs nés et vivant en …

In this paper an attempt is made to automatically recognize the speaker's accent among
regional Swiss French accents from four different regions of Switzerland, ie Geneva (GE) …

This study examines articulation rate in three varieties of Canadian French and includes
consideration of speaking style (reading vs. spontaneous), speaker's age and gender, and …

This paper investigates whether European Francophone subjects are able to distinguish
between regional French accents from (northern) France, Belgium, and Switzerland, and at …

In adult French phonology, schwa is a separate vowel category that either deletes or merges
with/œ/in the output. This thesis revolves around the distribution, categorisation and …

In this study, we investigate the multifaceted realizations of the/R/consonant in Québec
French (QF) by combining sociolinguistic and phonological approaches. First, from a …

D'après le dernier recensement linguistique de la population de l'Office Fédéral de la
Statistique (daté de 2015) 16, le français est parlé par 1, 6 million de locuteurs en Suisse …

Individual differences in working memory and musical aptitude, as well as task complexity
are crucial in predicting the performance of word stress perception in a second language …

This communication presents partial results from an on-going study on prosodic and
phonostylistic variation across phonogenres (ie, speaking styles), typified acoustic images …