Intonation of parentheses in spontaneous French sentences
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2008/02/0040/000099Keywords:
intonation, parenthesis, prosodic structure, macrosyntaxAbstract
Traditionally, parentheses have been described by phoneticians as speech segments with lower intensity, restrained pitch variation, and a speech rate faster than the rest of the sentence. This iconic coding may be found in some examples of read (prepared) speech, but spontaneous speech data tend to show that specific prosodic mechanisms do exist to either: 1) integrate the syntactic parenthesis into the overall prosodic structure of the sentence, or 2) isolate it with an independent prosodic structure. The realizations chosen by speakers appear to be dictated by the interaction of semantic, syntactic, and prosodic markers to ensure the parentheses will be identified as such by listeners.
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