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Philippe BOULA DE MAREÜIL (Paris Sud)Variation diachronique dans la prosodie du style journalistique : le cas de l'accent initial
(Diachronic variation in the prosody of French news announcer speech: changes in word initial accent)2012, Vol. XVII-1, pp. 97-111Cette étude traite de l'évolution de la prosodie dans le style journalistique français, à partir de l'analyse acoustique d'archives audiovisuelles remontant aux années 1940. Un corpus d'une dizaine d'heures de parole a été examiné automatiquement, et nous nous sommes concentrés sur l'accent initial, qui peut donner une impression de style emphatique. Des mesures objectives suggèrent qu'en un demi-siècle les traits suivants ont diminué : la hauteur de voix des journalistes, la montée mélodique associée à l'accent initial et la durée vocalique caractérisant un accent initial emphatique. Les attaques de syllabes initiales accentuées, quant à elles, se sont allongées. Ce résultat suggère que les corrélats de durée de l'accent initial ont changé au cours du temps, dans le style journalistique français.
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Geneviève CAELEN-HAUMONT (CNRS-Grenoble)Lexique, indices mélodiques et auto-interprétation
(Lexicon, melodic indices and auto-interpretation)1996, Vol. I-1, pp. 25-40This article aims to investigate experimentally the links between prosody and the various domains of linguistics (syntax, semantics, pragmatics). Since the function of prosody is to convey the interpretation of the meaning the speaker wants to give to his utterance, the method that is proposed is to define linguistic models that can be quantified in such a way as to both yield an interpretive strategy of the linguistic contents and to predict a melodic structuring of the lexical framework. Experimental evidence shows links between on the one hand constraints related to the text and the context, and on the other the distribution of models and melodical indices, and allows us to define prosody and more in particular melody, as a subjective locus, where whatever belongs to the linguistic realm enters the realm of pragmatics.
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Shirley VINTER (Besançon)La prosodie, structure d'accueil des compétences langagières. L'apport de la pathologie
(Prosody and its importance in acquiring language skills by hearing impaired children)2001, Vol. VI-1, pp. 21-34Through analysis of adult-deaf child and adult-SLI child interaction, and after the presentation of the theoretical frame and aims of Interactive Developmental Intonology, we try to better understand the importance of prosody in early language acquisition. Our research focuses on suprasegmental development - rhythmical and melodic organization in the interaction -, and its effects on conversational and linguistic competences of handicapped children. Which are the conditions for sounds to become a canonical sentence? How a prelinguistic utterance, without words, can nevertheless have a linguistic modality?
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Brigitte ZELLNER (Lausanne, Suisse)Structures temporelles et structures prosodiques en français lu
(Temporal and prosodic structures in French reading)1996, Vol. I-1, pp. 7-23Although the prosodic component has been integrated in speech synthesis systems for many years, one temporal dimension, namely fluency of speech, has much less been considered. Fluent speech is characterized by easy verbal production, smooth onsets and transitions, and an adequate speech rate. It will be argued that for French, the current lack of fluency in speech synthesis can be explained by the fact that temporal structuring is inadequate for achieving this, as this structure is considered to be congruent with the accent structure. In this article a new approach of temporal organisation will be presented.
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