An acoustic profile of right-dislocations in French
This study provides an acoustic profile of the prosody of right-dislocations in French, using the computer hardware and software package known as CECIL. Twenty-eight right-dislocations occurring in a corpus of natural French discourse provide the data for the acoustic analysis. While right-dislocations appear to fulfil various functional roles in discourse, no correlation appears between functional type and the acoustic properties studied (pause, frequency, amplitude).
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Corpus
- 3.Methodology
- 4.Findings
- 4.1Prosodic integration of RD
- 4.2Intonation of RD
- 4.3Amplitude of RD
- 4.4Iconicity
- 4.4.1Prosodic integration
- 4.4.2Intonation
- 5.Conclusion
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