Thematisation and Prosodic Emphasis in Spoken French A Preliminary Analysis
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This study aims at examining the links between thematic constructions and prosodic emphasis, and the way the two types of operations can be reinforced by gestures. It was conducted on a corpus of 1h30 of spoken French, involving three pairs of speakers in dialogues. Results show that although the tendency is for emphatic constructions as a whole not to be reinforced by gestures, there is still a higher proportion of gesture reinforcing with prosodic emphasis than with syntactic thematisation. The paper describes which eyebrow and head movements as well as hand gestures are more liable to accompany the two operations.
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