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Swiss French Prosody: Intonation, Rate, and Speaking Style in the Vaud Canton

Miller, Jessica Sertling

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Title
Swiss French Prosody: Intonation, Rate, and Speaking Style in the Vaud Canton
Author(s)
Miller, Jessica Sertling
Issue Date
2007
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Zsuzsanna Fagyal-Le Mentec
Department of Study
French
Discipline
French
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Language, Modern
Language
eng
Abstract
The findings for the study on Vaudois spontaneous speech may account for this alignment difference. An analysis of the tonal alignment of each point in the major phrase-final LHL pattern helped to determine their phonological status as perhaps a bitonal pitch accent (LH*) followed by a boundary tone (L%). An optional H phrase tone was found to sometimes occur as well. The possible insertion of these boundary tones may create the need to align LH* earlier in Vaudois French.
Graduation Semester
2007
Type of Resource
text
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