ITRW on Experimental Linguistics Athens, Greece August 28-30, 2006

Prosody, Syntax, Macrosyntax

Philippe Martin

UFRL Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot, France

Most of research work on French intonation has been conducted on prepared speech data (i.e. read speech), with various approaches ranging to purely syntactic (Rossi), Autosegmental-Metrical (Sun and Fougeron) or Phonosyntactic (Martin). This paper examines the bases of the phonosyntactic approach extended to spontaneous (nonprepared) speech data, described syntactically from a macrosyntactic point of view (Blanche-Benveniste, Deulofeu).

References

• Blanche-Benveniste, C., 2002, Approches de la langue parlée en français, Ophrys, Paris.
• Boulakia, G., Deulofeu, J. and Martin, Ph., 2001, Prosodic features finish off ill-formed utterances, don't they?, Proc. Congreso de Fonetica Experimental, Universidad de Sevilla, España, 5-7 mars 2001.
• Deulofeu, J., 2003, L’approche macrosyntaxique en syntaxe: un nouveau modèle de rasoir d’Occam contre les notions inutiles, Scolia, n° 16, Publications de l’Université de Strasbourg.
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Full Paper

Bibliographic reference.  Martin, Philippe (2006): "Prosody, syntax, macrosyntax", In ExLing-2006, 185-188.