The Structure of French Intonational Rises: A Study of Text-to-Tune Alignment
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A production study examined the structure of French intonational rises. Prosodic phrases with a two-rise pattern (LHLH) were most common. Phrase length, expressed either in number of syllables or in clock time, was the best predictor of the realization of the two-rise pattern. Several other patterns were observed, including one not reported in the literature. I argue, following [6], that the early and late rises are structurally different: the LH of the late rise is a bitonal pitch accent, while the the LH of the early rise is a bitonal phrase accent. I revise my account ([9]) of the association of the L of this phrase accent.
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