Language-independent prosodic features

Jacqueline Vaissière (1)

1 LPP - LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR 7018

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the similarities in form and function of prosody among diverse languages: - the pause - Fo declinaison tendency and its control - natural Fo range and its control - Resetting of the baseline - the alternance between Fo rise and fall - Fo continuation rise and final fall - intensity fall - final lengthening the differences between the languages seem to be due to - a different timing of the same gestures - a different order of priorities - a different relationship betwen Fo, duration and intensity

Mots clés: language-independant; prosody; duration; fundamental frequency; intensity; pauses; French; English; resetting; lengthening; declination tendency

Domaines: Linguistique

Jacqueline Vaissière. Language-independent prosodic features. Prosody: Models and Measurements, Springer Verlag, pp.53-65, 1983. ⟨halshs-00703571⟩