Correlation Between Prosody and Pragmatics: Case Study of Discourse Markers in French and English

Lee, Lou; Jouvet, Denis; Bartkova, Katarina; Keromnes, Yvon; Dargnat, Mathilde

doi:10.21437/interspeech.2020-2204

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“…That is, they frequently occur in an initial discourse unit (Lenk, 1998). From a phonetic perspective, Lee et al (2020) stated that particles/markers are often "reduced or unstressed compared to the 'standard' usage of the same word not as a marker" (p.1). Since the element tˤayb has all the above-mentioned features, it is considered a particle/marker, as we will see in detail later in this paper.…”

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Prosodic correlates and pragmatic functions of the particle tˤayb in spoken Saudi Arabic

Aljutaily

2021

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This study describes the prosodic and functional patterns of the particle tˤayb 2 in Spoken Saudi Arabic (SSA; the variety of Arabic spoken in Saudi Arabia) through phonetic and conversational analysis. This particle, literally meaning "good/well/okay," is one of the most common spoken particles used in SSA. Data were collected by recording four hours of oral spontaneous speech produced by five Saudi speakers. The findings reveal that, structurally, the particle tˤayb can occur independently before questions and before negative and affirmative statements. Moreover, its meaning depends on its context and, sometimes, prosody. The particle is identified 109 times in the corpus, and consistently occupies an initial (i.e., turn-initial) but not a medial or final position. The results provide the pragmatic functions and the prosody of the particle tˤayb as well as the participants' use frequency of such functions. Tˤayb conveys nine pragmatic functions in the data, which are listed in order from the most frequent (i.e., turn-taking marker) to the least frequent use (i.e., request for patience). From a phonetic perspective, the results show different patterns in the production of the particle tˤayb; it may show an almost flat contour with medium length, as in the functions representing (turn-taking, change and close topic); a sharp rising/falling contour with medium length, particularly with the functions conveying (reproach and refusal); or a high contour that decreases gradually with long duration, as found in the particle marking Be patient or showing little/no importance.

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Prosodic correlates and pragmatic functions of the particle tˤayb in spoken Saudi Arabic

Aljutaily

2021

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The Pragmatic Function of Press Discourse Markers in French Language

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Tahat

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Studies in Computational Intelligence

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The pitch contour of the French discourse markerdonc: A corpus-based study using generalized additive mixed modeling

2023

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In this article, we explored the pitch contour patterns of the French discourse marker donc in realizing different pragmatic functions from native and non-native oral corpora in French. Statistical analyses using generalized additive mixed modeling revealed that even though Mandarin Chinese L1 speakers learning French also used the pitch cue to realize pragmatic functions, their prosodic pattern is different from the native pattern. Their L1 Chinese seemed to influence their usage of the pitch cue significantly. In addition, women were shown to be better than men in using the pitch cue in conveying pragmatic functions with a closer pattern to the native pattern. Overall, our study sheds new light on the relationship between speakers’ L1 and L2 regarding the interaction between pragmatic and prosodic features. It also provides new reflections on the acquisition of socio-pragmatic competence.

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Correlation Between Prosody and Pragmatics: Case Study of Discourse Markers in French and English

Cited by 3 publications

References 19 publications

Prosodic correlates and pragmatic functions of the particle tˤayb in spoken Saudi Arabic

Prosodic correlates and pragmatic functions of the particle tˤayb in spoken Saudi Arabic

The Pragmatic Function of Press Discourse Markers in French Language

The pitch contour of the French discourse markerdonc: A corpus-based study using generalized additive mixed modeling

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