Abstract
Abstract This study, the ninth in a series of reports on the ‘Paris Project’, was undertaken to investigate the status of /e/ and /Ε/ in verb endings in the dominant dialect of contemporary French, as it is spoken by educated middle-class Parisians. The data source is a collection of voice spectrograms derived from a corpus of surreptitiously taped conversations of representative speakers. The results show that the traditional /e/–/Ε/ phonemic opposition is still generally maintained, although the phonetic realization of /Ε/ in open syllables is approximately midway between canonical /e/ and /Ε/.
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