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L'intonation montante en français spontané : Continuation vs. Question

Rising intonation in spontaneous French: Continuation vs. Question

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Author

  • Emma Valtersson

Summary, in English

Continuation statements and polar questions in conversational French are typically both produced with final rising intonation. This study shows that several pitch, duration, and intensity cues can distinguish the two utterance types over chance level. Nevertheless, we see a lot of phonetic overlap between the two. Rather than assuming two distinct rising intonation contour types for French, we propose that the variation in phonetic detail relates to interactional factors (e.g., turn-taking and speech-act type).

Department/s

  • Master's Programme: Language and Linguistics

Publishing year

2013

Language

French

Document type

Student publication for Master's degree (two years)

Topic

  • Languages and Literatures

Keywords

  • spontaneous conversation
  • French
  • polar questions
  • question intonation
  • rising intonation

Supervisor

  • Paul Touati (Professor)
  • Francisco Torreira (Dr.)