Quand les paroles s’envolent : réflexions sur les caractéristiques et la forme phonétique du High Rising Terminal en anglais contemporain

Wilhelm, Stephan

doi:10.4000/anglophonia.591

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“…Our results tend to show that UNB rises take the form of rise-plateaus in DE and that continuation rises can be realized as rise-plateaus too or low rises. Our study also attests that uptalk is present in DE, that it is probably not a recent innovation, and that it takes the form of full rises and high rises, which correlates [28]'s findings on uptalk contours by a Derry speaker. Uptalk in DE would have the same phonetic forms as in Ulster English.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

“…For instance, [27] report that the contour of Australian uptalk is L*H-H or H*H-H%, while for Glasgow it is L*H H-L%. [28] distinguishes 5 different contours for uptalk: high rise, full rise, low rise, low flat, and fall-rise. According to [23] the only elements that are common to most forms of uptalk are the fact that the average pitch levels are lower, the rise starts later and from a lower level, thus resulting in a more dramatic rising pattern for uptalk than for questions.…”

Section: Phonetic Formmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A qualitative analysis of rising tones in Dublin English

Bongiorno¹,

Herment²

2018

Speech Prosody 2018

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In this paper, we present the results of a preliminary study of the intonation system of Dublin English (DE) with a particular focus on rising tones. After analysing a corpus recorded in the framework of the PAC Program, we conclude that Dublin English has a hybrid intonation system that mixes standard English contours like falls and rises, and Northern Irish contours like rise-falls. Rising declaratives are also found (as reported by [7] and [8]), but we argue that some of these rising tones are occurrences of Uptalk and do not belong to the Urban Northern British Intonation (UNBI) that is found in Belfast. Indeed the analysis of extracts of conversations providing an ecological context makes it possible to perform a qualitative study of the interactional and pragmatic functions linked to Uptalk, and this is, as far as we know, the first study of the kind on Dublin English rising tones. We conclude that UNB rises take the form of rise-plateaus in DE. Continuation rises can be realized as rise-plateaus or low rises, while uptalk takes the form of full rises and high rises.Index Terms: Dublin English, rising contours, uptalk, interactional functions of intonation, phonetic form.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Section: Phonetic Formmentioning

confidence: 99%

A qualitative analysis of rising tones in Dublin English

Bongiorno¹,

Herment²

2018

Speech Prosody 2018

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“…HRT/Uptalk is documented mainly in Australia, New Zealand and North America. However, it is spreading quickly in Great Britain, even in UNBI varieties ( [25]). HRT results in a choice from the speaker (see [26][23] [27] [28]).…”

Section: Urban Northern British Intonation and Hrtmentioning

confidence: 99%

The British English rising contour: an exception in read speech?

Herment¹,

Tortel²,

Leonarduzzi³

2020

Speech Prosody 2020

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This paper focuses on rising contours in English read speech. Our hypothesis is that they are very few in this particular speech style. This is confirmed by quantitative and qualitative analyses, conducted on a corpus of read speech by native English speakers with a standard British English accent. The main result of the quantitative analyses is that out of 1076 tone units, 82% (whether final or not) are uttered with a falling contour, which is much more than could be expected. The qualitative analyses consisted in a thorough examination of the intonation contours in relation with the syntactic characteristics of our data, as well as an analysis of the pragmatic functions of the contours. They allow us to revisit the generally accepted idea that falling contours are associated with final statements and rises with yes-no questions and continuation. We show that the tonal sequence fall plus fall is by far the most common in read speech, whatever the syntactic structure, except for enumerations. Contrary to what is stated in the literature, the main function of rising contours is not to indicate non-finality and continuation, but rather to convey attitudes, at least in read speech.

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“…Le point crucial est ici le fait que les contours en question soient définis comme observés en fin d'énoncé (voir notamment Warren 2005, Fletcher & Loakes 2006et Wilhelm 2015. Dans la littérature -aujourd'hui relativement abondante -consacrée à ce phénomène, jamais cette définition n'a été remise en cause, même si certains auteurs préfèrent évoquer des schémas observés à la fin des « déclarations », des « affirmations » ou encore des « tournures déclaratives », des « phrases déclaratives » ou des « propositions déclaratives » (Wilhelm 2015).…”

Section: Intonation Délimitation éNonciationunclassified

“…De manière remarquable, il se trouve que l'examen de corpus oraux révèle la présence récurrente de tons phonétiquement et fonctionnellement similaires au High Rising Terminal à la fin de simples constituants d'énoncés prototypiques, voire de segments qui ne constituent pas même des constituants discrets (Wilhelm 2015 Brazil (1975 ;, qui reconnaît la possibilité de conférer à un simple constituant une valeur « proclamative » (proclaiming) , c'est la solution que nous proposons ailleurs (Wilhelm 2015).…”

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