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-dislocati...

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Published in:Journal of French language studies 1994-09, Vol.4 (2), p.127-145
Main Author: Ashby, William J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acoustic Phonetics
Computer Software
Discourse Analysis
Dislocation (Language)
French
Language Research
Oral Language
Pragmatics
Syntax
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Summary: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).
ISSN:0959-2695
1474-0079
DOI:10.1017/S0959269500002192