Intonation seems to be one of the major cues for identifying youth language in the Paris region. As part of a large-scale corpus-based analysis, this paper attempts to model a high-low final prosodic pattern, considered to be representative of a Paris working-class suburbs accent. Comparison with the emphatic high-low prosodic pattern, well-known in general French, will provide the opportunity for sociolinguistic insights. The ethnic hypothesis is dismissed in favor of a context-bound and interaction-sensitive interpretation.
Cite as: Paternostro, R., Goldman, J.P. (2014) Modeling of a rise-fall intonation pattern in the language of young Paris speakers. Proc. Speech Prosody 2014, 814-818, doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2014-152
@inproceedings{paternostro14_speechprosody,
author={Roberto Paternostro and Jean Philippe Goldman},
title={{Modeling of a rise-fall intonation pattern in the language of young Paris speakers}},
year=2014,
booktitle={Proc. Speech Prosody 2014},
pages={814--818},
doi={10.21437/SpeechProsody.2014-152}
}