@inproceedings {5636, title = {Contribution {\`a} l{\textquoteright}{\'e}tude de la focalisation prosodique en fran{\c c}ais}, year = {2016}, month = {07/2016}, address = {Paris, France}, abstract = {

Cette \étude porte sur la focalisation prosodique en fran\çais dans plusieurs styles de parole (parole spontan\ée et lecture ou interpr\étation par des acteurs). Nous attribuons \à la focalisation des fonctions s\émantico-pragmatiques ou emphatiques. Un groupe de dix experts en prosodie a relev\é les occurrences de focalisation dans le corpus d\’\étude. Les r\ésultats confirment que la focalisation est r\éalis\ée par une augmentation de hauteur et de dur\ée. Ils diff\èrent de la litt\érature pr\éc\édente du point de vue du type de contour prosodique employ\é sur les occurrences de focalisation et de la pr\ésence d\’accent initial. Des probl\èmes m\éthodologiques sont soulev\és concernant l\’analyse des contours terminaux et de la d\ésaccentuation.

This paper studies prosodic highlighting in French in several types of speech (spontaneous speech and reading aloud or performing by actors). We take it that prosodic highlighting fulfills semantic-pragmatic or expressive functions. A group of ten prosody experts annotated the occurrences of prosodic highlighting in the corpus of study. Results confirm that prosodic highlighting is realized through an increase in pitch and duration. They differ from previous studies concerning the type of prosodic contour on occurrences of prosodic highlighting and the presence of initial secondary accent. Methodological issues are raised concerning the analysis of terminal contours and deaccenting.

}, keywords = {accentuation, contour, focalisation, parole spontan{\'e}e, prosodie}, url = {https://jep-taln2016.limsi.fr/actes/Actes\%20JTR-2016/Papers/J89.pdf}, author = {R{\'e}mi Godement-Berline} } @inproceedings {4644, title = {Using a replication task to study prosodic highlighting}, year = {2016}, abstract = {

It is hypothesized that prosodic highlighting (the accenting of a constituent for reasons other than rhythmic, i. e. focus marking or expressive emphasis) can be best studied by asking subjects to act out the script of a conversation, either reading it aloud or performing it from memory. Four subjects \“replicated\” a previously recorded and transcribed spontaneous conversation in French, thus allowing for a three-way comparison between spontaneous, read and interpreted speech using the exact same text. A group of prosody experts annotated the occurrences of prosodic highlighting in each recording. The results confirm the hypothesis on one count but not on the others. The frequency of occurrence of prosodic highlighting is, as expected, highest in interpretation, followed by reading. However, mean F0 and mean syllabic duration of the annotated words do not follow the same gradation. On the phonological side, there are no differences in the distribution of prosodic contours present on the annotated words, as well as a few other features.

}, keywords = {elicitation task, memory, prosodic highlighting, read speech versus spontaneous speech}, author = {R{\'e}mi Godement-Berline} } @inproceedings {2917, title = {L{\textquoteright}emploi de la focalisation prosodique dans le jeu d{\textquoteright}acteur}, volume = {31}, year = {2014}, month = {09/2014}, pages = {129-139}, publisher = {Cahiers de linguistique fran{\c c}aise}, address = {Gen{\`e}ve, Switzerland}, abstract = {

A corpus of occurrences of prosodic highlighting was put together by three experts out of a sample recording from two theatrical performances. The experts classified the occurrences in several functions, and the corpus was analyzed phonetically for the presence of the prosodic features that literature associates with these functions. The main finding was that a significant percentage of occurrences classified in the function of \“insisting\” displayed some features associated with the function of narrow focus marking, especially deaccenting. Further research is needed to verify this result, which, if it were confirmed, would have important pragmatic implications, as well as shed light on some characteristics of actors\’ speech.

}, keywords = {acting, focus marking, prosodic highlighting}, author = {R{\'e}mi Godement-Berline} } @inproceedings {4969, title = {Suffixes complexes : quand c{\textquoteright}est fini {\c c}a recommence}, year = {2010}, pages = {241-244}, author = {R{\'e}mi Godement-Berline and Philippe Martin} }