and Inter-clausal Non-conclusive Slopes in French - Mathilde Dargnat
Portes et al. (2007). Contribution to a Grammar of Intonation in French. Form and function of three rising patterns, Nouveaux Cahiers de Linguistique Française.
Intra- and Inter-clausal Non-conclusive Slopes in French: First Results Mathilde Dargnat & Katarina Bartkova Nancy University, ATILF-CNRS {mathilde.dargnat;katarina.bartkova}@atilf.fr
Anne Bonneau & Vincent Colotte Nancy University, LORIA-CNRS
Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody ETAP 2: Prosody in Context Montreal, Sept. 23-25 2011
{anne.bonneau;vincent.colotte}@loria.fr
PARTIAL RESULTS
BACKGROUND
Intonation data
Some recurrent prosodic pattern in non-conclusive position
Intonation slopes are computed as regression slopes (Rslope ST) using F0 values in semitones estimated every 10 ms. Slopes are calculated on the two last syllables of the target segments (in bold in figure 1) of every sentence.
In corpora of French spontaneous speech, one finds in general a melodic rise at the end of A in juxtaposed declarative clauses (i.e. AB, where A and B are clauses linked by a unmarked discourse relation). It indicates that A is an unfinished constituent at the discourse level, and it could be associated with the notion of "grouping" or "major" continuation contour, in Delattre's acoustic, functionalist and holistic approach.
GOAL OF THE STUDY Study two kinds of non-conclusive configurations in French Syntactic level: slope of the final segment of a subject NP in an declarative sentence, followed (=CIA) or not (=CIS) by another clause. ● Discourse level: slope of the final segment of A in a two clause utterance AB, where A and B are declarative clauses connected by a discourse relation, marked (=CAO) or not (=CAP) by a conjunction.
Statistical tests Next, data were analysed by fitting mixed linear regression models (R packadge lme4). One can then contrast the different configuration types and show which differences are significant or not (glht function in multcomp R packadge). *: observed difference is significative. 5%
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