Mathieu Avanzi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mathieu Avanzi plays a role.
2019 Chapter 9. The annotation of syllabic prominences and disfluencies Rhapsodie: A prosodic and syntactic treebank for spoken French, Lacheret-Dujour, Anne, Sylvain Kahane and Paola Pietrandrea (eds.), pp. 157–173 | Chapter
This chapter presents the methodology developed to capture syllabic prominences and prosodic disfluencies in the speech flow. Then it describes the protocol used for the 3-point scale labeling of prominences and disfluencies, the choice of annotators, from semi-naive to experts, the inter-annotator… read more
2018 Le pronom y accusatif en français régional et dans les dialectes galloromans: Histoire et géographie Lingvisticæ Investigationes 41:1, pp. 62–86 | Article
Le but de cet article est de porter un regard nouveau sur le pronom y accusatif dit « neutre » dans le français et dans les dialectes galloromans de la région de Lyon (di-m-z-i = dis-moi-z-y ; d’i sé ben = j’y sais bien). L’examen de données bibliographiques et atlantographiques rarement… read more
2017 A crowdsourcing approach to the description of regional variation in French object clitic clusters Current trends in analyzing syntactic variation, De Cuypere, Ludovic, Clara Vanderschueren and Gert de Sutter (eds.), pp. 76–103 | Article
Our contribution is dedicated to the empirical testing of alleged regional variants of object clitic clusters in modern French in France, Belgium and Switzerland. We provide some intriguing new insights into the regional distribution of non-standard variants and discuss one hypothesis on their… read more
2015 A preliminary study of penultimate accentuation in French The Phonetics–Phonology Interface: Representations and methodologies, Romero, Joaquín and María Riera (eds.), pp. 93–108 | Article
The aim of this paper is to provide an acoustical study of penultimate accentuation in French. We compare stretches of spontaneous speech produced by four Swiss speakers (from Neuchâtel, considered as the speakers of the regional variety) with the productions of a four Parisian speakers (considered… read more