Phonetic Transcription Rules and Quantitative Analysis of Phoneme Distribution in French

After establishing the rules for the phonetic transcription in French, quantitative analysis on the given text, Waiting for Godot, is performed. Analyzing the text by investigating the influence of phoneme distribution is very interesting in the phonostylistic point of view. Since the phonetic transcription rules are useful for its automation, the rules are carefully established in this paper. From the results of the phonetic transcription, we can investigate the distribution of individual phonemes and the different phoneme groups between dialogues and scenery indications for various characters.