. Fundamental Prosodic Concepts 1.1. Prosody: a Working Definition
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Cet article a pour objectif principal de fournir quelques éléments de comparaison concernant les systèmes prosodiques de plusieurs variétés d’anglais. Après une présentation de quelques concepts fondamentaux de la prosodie (notamment concernant sa structure ; section 1), nous évoquerons quelques éléments de typologie permettant la catégorisation de phénomènes prosodiques de variation (section 2) : nous soulèverons à ce propos les difficultés posées par l’identification des formes et des fonctions prosodiques. Nous décrirons ensuite (section 3) IViE, projet spécifique à l’étude de la variation prosodique au sein des îles britanniques, ainsi que quelques aspects prosodiques du projet PAC (cf. Carr, Durand & Pukli, ce vol.). Après avoir présenté les réponses proposées par ces deux projets au problème de l’identification et de l’annotation des formes et des fonctions prosodiques (section 4), nous mettrons finalement (section 5) certaines observations (notamment certains phénomènes de variation rythmique et les « High Rise Terminals ») en rapport avec des phénomènes similaires observés en anglais australien, néo-zélandais et de Hong Kong.
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