ESCA Workshop on Prosody Lund, Sweden September 27-29, 1993

Phonetic Evidence of Narrow and Wide Temporal Scope for Prosodic Constituents in French

Louise Levac, Henrietta J. Cedergren, Hélène Perreault

Departement de linguistique, University du Québec a Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

This research addresses the issue of motivating surface prosodic structure in spontaneous French corpora through the use of three complementary methods: auditory, acoustic-phonetic and distributional analyses. This hybrid phonetic-phonological approach has allowed the identification of four distinct levels of prosodic grouping: the intonational phrase, the rhythmic group, morphophonological binding and the syllable.

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Bibliographic reference.  Levac, Louise / Cedergren, Henrietta J. / Perreault, Hélène (1993): "Phonetic evidence of narrow and wide temporal scope for prosodic constituents in French", In Prosody-1993, 54-57.