Correlations between the patterns in Romanian and French /v/ pronunciations and the dentition state

The aim of the paper is to define /v/ fricative features useful for the discrimination between normal and pathological dentistry cases. On one side, we investigate the correlations that appear in the pronunciations of the /v/ fricative in the context _/v/V by French and Romanian speakers in their native languages. On the other side, we investigate the correlations between the overall allophonic classes of /v/ in the specified context and the state of the dentition. Tentatively, we analyze the differences that appear between the group of speakers with perfect dentition and the group with dentition deficiencies, at the level of the probabilities of the allophonic classes conditioned by the context. We aim to preliminary determine if dental pathologies can be detected from the /v/ pronunciations. Moreover, we seek to answer the question if a tool based solely on /v/ analysis would be portable between French and Romanian.