Bethany MacLeod

Laurentian French vowel laxing: an articulatory and acoustic study

Abstract In Laurentian French (LF), the high vowels /i y u/ are realized as lax [ɪ ʏ ʊ] in syllables closed by certain consonants. Previous work on vowel laxing has focused primarily on describing the environments in which it occurs and on providing an acoustic characterization o...