A new perspective on the development of Quebec French rhotic vowels Quebec French is reportedly developing rhoticity, with low F3 resulting from a bunched or retroflexed tongue (like English /ɚ/), in some or all of the front mid rounded vowels /ø, œ, œ̃ /. The source ...

How do rare sound changes, like the development of rhotic vowels, actuate and spread? @massimolipari.github.io and @msonderegger.bsky.social show that rhotacization of 3 #QuebecFrench vowels emerges from an interplay of social + phonological pressures. #LabPhon #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/lab...

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Phonetic Diversity vs. Sociolinguistic and Phonological Patterning of R in Québec French 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 sociophonetic point of vi...

🎉#NewPublication with M.Hutin on #rhotics in #QuebecFrench. We show how sociological (speakers' location, age and gender) and phonological information (phoneme's syllabic position) allows to explain the uses & choices of 9 different variants of /R/.
www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/...