Prosodic Characteristics of Read and Spontaneous Speech in French
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This study compares the read and spontaneous speech prosodic characteristics of two relatively small corpora in French (about 3 minute’s length). Acoustic data such as syllabic rate, number of effective stressed syllable vs. theoretical prediction, prosodic hierarchy and realization of melodic contours are compared for both styles. The predicting power of two theoretical approaches, autosegmental-metrical and functional-cognitive, is then assessed when confronted with the experimental data.
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