Abstract:This paper aims at examining production of French speakers in marking focus-induced prominence at the articulatory and acoustic levels. The corpus consisted of CVC syllables, where C corresponds to one of the stops /p t k/ and V is one of the vowels /i a u/. Target words were embedded in carrier sentences elicited in two prosodic conditions: neutral (unfocused) and under contrastive focus. Four adult speakers (all native speakers of French) pronounced ten repetitions of each sequence. The audio signal and tong… Show more
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