Permanence et variation des unités prosodiques dans le discours et l'interaction

Portès, Cristel; Bertrand, Roxane

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“…To identify a period boundary all the following conditions must be present: a pause of at least 300 ms, significant F0 movement, and pitch reset. Portes & Bertrand (2011) argued for a phonological structuration of spontaneous speech into several phrasing levels like those of read speech. They suggested that this structuration is only affected by disfluencies and interactional processes such as turn-taking and backchannels.…”

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Processing Units in Conversation: A Comparative Study of French and Mandarin Data

Prévot¹,

Tseng²,

Peshkov³

et al. 2015

Language and Linguistics

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4Human spoken language production is directed towards communication delivering comprehensible information to recipients. Speech segmentation into small units efficiently enhances a sensible and interpretable discourse structure. Such processing units in real-life communication may be applied to semantic, syntactic, or prosodic structures. Previous studies have proposed various theories of speech segmentation, mainly based on qualitative analyses. The present study utilizes corpus-based quantitative data to examine how conversational speech in French and Mandarin is structured in terms of three different processing units, and how these units interact with one another. Unit completion location was identified by semantic structure (discourse unit), prosodic pattern (prosodic unit), and sequences of parts of speech (chunk). Quantitative analyses for both languages were carried out by applying comparable processing procedures. This article presents our efforts to establish a dataset for two typologically diverse languages, and to carry out quantitative comparative studies of processing units in face-to-face conversation.

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“…For the French dataset, once primary and secondary stresses have been identified, the main acoustic cues are (1) specific melodic contour, (2) final lengthening, (3) pitch reset. Disfluencies were annotated separately and silent pauses have not been systematically associated with a boundary (Portes et al 2011). …”

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Processing Units in Conversation: A Comparative Study of French and Mandarin Data

Prévot¹,

Tseng²,

Peshkov³

et al. 2015

Language and Linguistics

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“… AC-IP, which corresponds to the last metrical syllable of any IP, IP boundaries being located at the end of a clause, a detached syntactic constituent, or a line (in poems and rhymes), see [14], [17] and [18] among others.…”

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“…Indeed, accented syllables, which correspond to the last full syllable at any level of prosodic structure, are lengthened, the lengthening rate being generally related to the level of phrasing (e.g. [15], [18]). Lengthening rates were thus computed by comparing the duration of vowels in unaccented syllables with the duration of the nucleus of any last metrical syllables (i.e.…”

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Rhythmic patterns and literary genres in synthesized speech

Delais-Roussarie¹,

Lolive²,

Yoo³

et al. 2016

Speech Prosody 2016

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In this paper, the rhythmic patterns observed in natural and synthesized speech are compared for three literary forms (rhymes, poems, and fairy tales). The aim of the comparison is to evaluate how rhythm could be improved in synthesized speech, which could allow adapting it to specific styles or genres. The study is based on the analysis of a corpus of six rhymes, four poems and two extracts from fairy tales. All texts were recorded by three speakers and were generated with two distinct synthesized voices. The comparison of the rhythmic patterns observed is done by analyzing duration in relation to prosodic structure in the various data sets. This approach allows showing that rhythmic differences between synthesized and natural speech are mostly due to the marking of prosodic structure.

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“…Dans les approches guidées par la réalisation physique des phénomènes prosodiques (Jun & Fougeron, 2002), le SI est défini comme un groupe prosodique comprenant minimalement un GA, lequel est assorti d'un accent nucléaire. En français, les accents nucléaires sont marqués par un mouvement mélodique majeur, montant, descendant ou montantdescendant (Portes, 2004), un allongement relatif et la présence d'une pause après (D'Imperio et al, 2007;Portes & Bertrand, 2011). Ils présentent la particularité d'être "contourogènes", c'est-à-dire de générer "une configuration mélodique identifiable (perceptivement et linguistiquement) comme un contour" (Di Cristo, 2010).…”

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Notes de recheche sur l'accentuation et le phrasé prosodique à la lumière des corpus de français

Avanzi¹

2013

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In this paper the main rules for stress assignment in French, the constraints relative to the formation of minor prosodic units (Accentual Phrases) and major prosodic units (Intonational Phrases, IP) are first recalled. A procedure developed in order to annotate semi-automatically these phenomena in different French corpora is then described. Finally the results of two studies are presented. The first one is conducted on a 4-hour long corpus (designed for the statistical study of regional variation in Swiss French). It aims at testing the robustness of two phonological rules implicated in the formation of Accentual Phrase in French (deaccentuation of pre-nominal adjectives (a sequel to the Align-XHead constraint), accentual clash avoidance rule). The second summarizes the main results obtained in the author’s PhD thesis (Avanzi, 2012). It is conducted on a set of data containing approximately 800 dislocated-sentences. It questions the weight of syntactic and information structure cues in front of prosodic structure cues in order to identify Intonational Phrase boundaries.

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Permanence et variation des unités prosodiques dans le discours et l'interaction

Cited by 13 publications

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Processing Units in Conversation: A Comparative Study of French and Mandarin Data

Processing Units in Conversation: A Comparative Study of French and Mandarin Data

Rhythmic patterns and literary genres in synthesized speech

Notes de recheche sur l'accentuation et le phrasé prosodique à la lumière des corpus de français

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