Les futures interprètes italophones à l’épreuve des voyelles nasales du français: prononciation et enjeux professionnels

Abstract

 The article proposes an analysis of the production of French nasal vowels by MA students of interpretation. The corpus analysed consists of six participants tested in two tasks provided by the IPFC (InterPhonologie du Français Contemporain) protocol, namely reading and free conversation between two learners, and in an additional task of consecutive interpretation. This study aims at investigating whether pronunciation of nasal vowels varies in the different tasks and participants, whether the written text has an impact on the production of nasal sounds and, finally, whether the consecutive interpretation task entails the production of a higher amount of non-standard nasal vowels due to the high cognitive load.