Phonological Problems in Teaching French to American High School Students
PHONOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN TEACHING FRENCH TO AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS fi. MARJORIE MC LAUGHLIN A. B., Wichita State University, 1942 A MASTER'S REPORT submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree MASTER OF SCIENCE College of Education KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY Manhattan, Kansas 1968 Major Professor I /fV ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to express my deep appreciation to Dr. Leo F. Engler, of the Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics, for his invaluable assistance in carrying out and reporting this study. Also, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. J. Harvey Littrell, my advisor, and to Dr. Richard E. Owens, of the College of Education, for their sugges- tions and constructive criticism during the preparation of this report. TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. INTROirtJCTION 1 The Problem 2 Statement of the problem 2 Limitations and delimitations 2 Definitions of Terms Used 3 Review of the Literature 6 II. CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CONSONANTS OF FRENCH AND OF ENGLISH AND OF THEIR DISTRIBUTION ... 9 Contra stive Consonant Phoneme Inventory ... 9 Articulation of French Consonants 11 Stops /p,t,d,k/ 11 Fricatives /S,3,r,s,a/ 13 Lateral /l/ 16 Nasal consonants /n,n,m/ 16 Semi-vowels /H,w/ 18 Summary 19 III. CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE VOWELS OF FRENCH AND ENGLISH 20 Manner of Classification of Vowels 20 Phonetic Description of the Vowel Phonemes of French and English 22 The twelve French oral vowels 22 The four French nasal vowel phonemes .... 23 iT CHAPTER PAGE The nine simple vowel phonemes of English 25 The twenty-seven complex syllabic nuclei of English 26 Contrast of French Vowels with Their Near- counterparts among the English Vowel Nuclei 27 French /£,3/ 27 French /i,e,u,o/ 29 The low vowels /a/ and /a/ 32 The rounded front vowels /y,(tf,ce/ 33 "Mute" or "fleeting" e 35 The French nasal vowels /a,0,£,ce/ 36 Summary 38 IV.
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