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On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader
William J. Ashby
[Studies in Language Companion Series 226] 2023
► pp. 249–276

An acoustic profile of right-dislocations in French

| University of California, Santa Barbara

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
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 2 March 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.226.c19
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