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Intonation systems in French

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Marie-Madeleine Kenning
Marie-Madeleine Kenning
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(University of East Anglia, Norwich)
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French intonation has so far received far less attention from linguists than English intonation. What is available on the subject tends to deal with specific issues and is usually based on read prose rather than on spontaneous speech. The aim of this paper is to provide an overall picture of the intonation of ‘standard’ conversational French so that the intonational resources of French may be compared with those of English. The primary data consists of about one hour of recorded conversations; the contrasts have been identified using auditory techniques and the accuracy of the transcription and reliability of the descriptive statements have been checked by analysing the corpus instrumentally with a mingograf.

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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , June 1979 , pp. 15 - 30
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1979

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