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When pitch accents encode speaker commitment: evidence from French intonation
In: ISSN: 0023-8309 ; Language and Speech ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01485301 ; Language and Speech, SAGE Publications (UK and US), 2015, ⟨10.1177/0023830915587337⟩ (2015)
Abstract: International audience ; Recent studies on a variety of languages have shown that a speaker's commitment to the propositional content of his or her utterance can be encoded, among other strategies, by pitch accent types. Since prior research mainly relied on lexical-stress languages, our understanding of how speakers of a non-lexical-stress language encode speaker commitment is limited. This paper explores the contribution of the last pitch accent of an intonation phrase to convey speaker commitment in French, a language that has stress at the phrasal level as well as a restricted set of pitch accents. In a production experiment, participants had to produce sentences in two pragmatic contexts: unbiased questions (the speaker had no particular belief with respect to the expected answer) and negatively biased questions (the speaker believed the proposition to be false). Results revealed that negatively biased questions consistently exhibited an additional unaccented F0 peak in the preaccentual syllable (an H+!H* pitch accent) while unbiased questions were often realized with a rising pattern across the accented syllable (an H* pitch accent). These results provide evidence that pitch accent types in French can signal the speaker's belief about the certainty of the proposition expressed in French. It also has implications for the phonological model of French intonation.
Keyword: [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics; French; Intonation; pitch accent; speaker commitment
URL: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01485301
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01485301/file/Language%26Speech_ManuscritAuteur.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830915587337
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01485301/document
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