The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the results of a study concerning the prosodic interpretation of punctuation. The focus is placed on the two most common punctuation marks, that is to say, full stops and commas. The findings are based on a comparison between The Stranger by Albert Camus the way it is published as a book and the way it is read out by its author in two French ra...

The heat was beginning to scorch my cheeks; beads of sweat were gathering in my eyebrows. It was just the same sort of heat as at my mother’s funeral and I had the same disagreeable sensations—especially in my forehead, where all the veins seemed to be bursting through my skin. I couldn’t stand it any longer . . . I was conscious only of the cymbals of the sun clashing on my skull . . . of the ...