We are looking for a French text in which speech sounds are selected such as to obtain a fixed proportion of voiced and unvoiced sounds (or more degrees of sonority). This text would we used in a contrastive multilingual experiment on vocal load.
In addition, we are interested in phonetically balanced corpora for French.
Thank you!
Dear Piet Mertens
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https://books.google.co.in/books?isbn=260003112X
Piet: I don’t know of any such texts or studies for French, I’m afraid, but perhaps contacting the authors of this study on phonetic balance in a Portuguese text might give you a lead:
Jesus, L. M. T., Valente, A. R. S., & Hall, A. (2015). Is the Portuguese version of ‘The North Wind and the Sun’ passage phonetically balanced? Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 45(1), 1-11. doi: 10.1017/S0025100314000255
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9615197&fileId=S0025100314000255
I hope this helps!
Madalena
You may find these books useful although quite old.
Lucile Charles & Annie-Claude Motron (2001). Phonetique Progressive du Francais avec 600 exercices. Paris: CLE International.
Lhote Elizabeth (1990). Le paysage sonore d'une langue, le francais. Hambourg: Buske Verlag.
Best wishes
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