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Park, Moon-Kyou. "Contribution à l'étude des structures rythmiques en parole lue et en parole spontanée : autour de l'accent focal en coréen et en français." Paris 7, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA070117.
Full textThe goal of this thesis is to present a comparative study of some aspects of rhythm (emphasis, duration, intonation) of the Korean language, as compared to these of French, and this, in the read speech and in the spontaneous speech. In the first part of this thesis, a preliminary study accounting for data of read sentences, so as to describe the realization of the different accents, the group accent and the accent of focalisation and of contrast. Results of this study are as followed : - the two languages share the same temporal and melodic patterns reflecting the group accent : one observes a congruency between syntax and prosody ; - on the other hand the prosodic structures are distinct as for the realization of the focal accent and the accent of contrast. This difference is again more visible in a corpus of French produced by a Korean speaker, at that one notes an interference of the mother tongue prosody on that of the language targets. From the results obtained in the preliminary study, we plan to develop the second and major part of the thesis to the study, in the two languages, of the perceptive and acoustic realizations of different accents (group accent and rhythmical accent) around the focal accent, in spontaneous speech, as compared to its read text. More particularly, variations of duration are methodically analysed to different prognostic levels (of phonetic segments in statements by passing by syllables, rhythmical groups and rhythmical sequences). The influence of the analysed accents on temporal profiles is equally evaluated. One of the main results to observe is the important role of the focal accent in the rhythmical organization of spontaneous speech
Jeannin, Marc. "Accent phonétique et accent musical en anglais : étude acoustique et psycho-acoustique." Paris 4, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA040164.
Full textThis work examines the connections between English and music at an accentual level. The study develops analyses of the prosodic organisation of phonetic units in vocal music to reveal common hierarchical structures. .
Dorgans-Robineau, Michèle. "Les trois accents graphiques utilisés dans la transcription du français : de la Renaissance à nos jours, à travers l'étude des dictionnaires de l'Académie française." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040102.
Full textThe French language uses, in its written shape, acute, grave and circumflex accents. These small graphic symbols knew numerous events before prevailing in our spelling. They occupied different uses, inspired by their usage with Greek and Latin grammarians. Then the French Academy gradually integrated them into its dictionaries and each of them was attributed one or several specific roles. Nowadays, accents seem to be in the process of disappearance, not only in handwriting but also on printed documents or screens. The author of this work wanted to try to understand why accents were neglected, forgotten or deformed. He notices that French people have a real affection for these signs which, while preserving an important phonetic role, are also remnants that tell us the long adventure of a word
Chan, Ming-kei Kevin. "The perception and production of lexical stress by Cantonese speakers of English." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B39793886.
Full textZhao, Shi Qi Jennifer. "The use of accents in Disney animated feature films 2010-2015." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3953579.
Full textSaffi, Sophie. "La place et la fonction de l'accent en italien." Paris 3, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA030033.
Full textOur study aims to understand and to explain the use of the italian prosodic system according to the systematic method. We verify the internal logic of the contemporary italian prosodic system and show that its present function fits into a logical series with other gfunctional models which have preceded it (italic, latin). We paralleled the evolution of 1) word construction with 2) the position, nature and function of stress. It also shows the interdependence 1) of the emergence of the geminate and the diphthong with the heterogeneity of the word componants (i. E. Semantic and morphologic elements) 2) of the disappearance of this phenemenon with the homogeneity of the componants (only semantic elements). Italian, because of the heterogeneous nature of its words, uses tools (i. E. Stress, gem. , diphth. ) to facilitate the analytic reading of its words; therefore, the importance of the regularity of its syllabic structure. The establishment of a parallel betweenconstructive model i. E. Word sentence and accent intonation, permis us to define the function of thelatter. The study of three corpora in italian confirmsthe theorical hypothesis of the function of stress : to emphasize the sense. During our study we observed a causal relationship between the nature and the function of the various phenomena studied. So, we dispute the notion of the arbitrary sign and we link the study of the function to the study of the nature of stress
Franchon-Cabrera, Claudine. "Accent et intonation en castillan : phrases affirmative et interrogative." Université Stendhal (Grenoble ; 1970-2015), 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994GRE39057.
Full textThis is a study of the evolution of physical parameters invilved for stress ruled by sentence intonation. Selected substantives contain the 3 main stress positions in castilian -oxytonic, paroxytonic and proparoxytonic- which are also contained in the in order to study stress variability under intonative rule, the sentences have been studied in the declarative an interrogative noods. For each nood, we will study the variability of stress parameters for substantives by varying the structure of macrosegments. For instance first at the start of noun phrases and verb phrases, then preceded or followed by other elements (adverbs, adjectives, prepositional phrases). The latter belonging to a main clause or a subordinate clause. This research will enable us to elaborate prosodic prediction rules for speech syntesis
Edensor, Kizzi. "L' influence des accents régionaux sur la compréhension de l'anglais britannique contemporain par des sujets francophones." Aix-Marseille 1, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010AIX10077.
Full textRey, Véronique. "Approche phonologique et expérimentale des faits d'accent d'une langue africaine : le Shingazidja (parler de la Grande Comore)." Aix-Marseille 1, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1989AIX10067.
Full textAltmann, Heidi. "The perception and production of second language stress a cross-linguistic experimental study /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file Mb., 252 p, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit?3220627.
Full textAl-Watban, Abdullah Mohammed. "Psychoacoustic analysis of intonation as a carrier of emotion in Arabic and English." Virtual Press, 1998. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1115720.
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Hunltley, Myrna Laksman. "L'accent en indonésien et son interaction avec l'intonation." Grenoble 3, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991GRE39113.
Full textIn fixed stress languages, such as indonesian, stress has no distinctive function. There are three hypotheses regarding the locus of the stress: oxytonique (samsuri, 1971), paroxytonique (. Halim, 1984) and multiple stress location (a. Cohn, 1989). The main objective of our research is to verify the validity of these three hypotheses with an objective study in the form of a quantitative instrumental analysis. After having localised the stress by refering to the parameters which take part in its realisation and perception, our second objective consists in verifying the robustness of stress under the influence of the general prosody of a sentence. For this reason, we have analysed a corpus of dissyllabic words (10 repetitions) placed in a carrier-sentence, between two pauses. For the second objective. The same words were put in the noun phrase of different affirmative sentences. The results of the acoustical analysis allowed us to conclude that: 1) word stress is always on the penultimate syllabe 2) it is essentially caracterised by the fundemental frequency, 3) an open final syllable makes the penultimate vowel longer than a closed syllable, 4) the frequency peak of a noun phrase before a verb is on the final syllable of the phrase and the secondary peak on the last syllable of the first word, 5) in a post-verbal noun phrase, there is only one peak, which occurs on the initial
Bazrgari, Iraj. "Prosodie et accentuation : étude expérimentale de la proéminence accentuelle dans la congruence prosodie-syntaxe : le cas du Farsi (persan moderne)." Paris 7, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA070062.
Full textOn the basis of generally accepted idea "The word stress in Persian is final. ", and through an experimental and original study on the read speech, I wanted to know reality of accentuation in Persian : the acoustic nature of the stressed sylable (according to the parameters such as the fundamental frequency and the duration), its function in the simple sentence, and to check if the accent into Persan is fixed. To arrive for this purpose, I based on two shutter. 1. Production 2. Perception. My results of prosodic analysis, as well as the tests of perception revealed that thé accent in Persian is rather a stressing : a process generated by prosodico-syntactic congruence. The stressed syllable into Persian is prominent, as much from the acoustic point of view that perceptive, and according to its place in the sentence: prone noun phrase, object, and verb
Galanakis, Linda. "Learners' attitudes to standard vs non-standard South African English accents of their teachers." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4259.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is interested in the relationship between accent and hearers’ perception of the speaker. It investigates the kinds of stereotypes related to phonological features of the speaker’s language. Specifically this thesis focused on the perceptions that high school girls have of their Mathematics teachers who speak English with a non-standard accent. The general aims of the study were to establish whether high school girls perceived non-standard English speaking Mathematics teachers negatively and, if so, whether this perception changed as the girls mature. Twenty-seven Grade 8 learners and 14 Grade 12 learners from a private English-medium school in the Gauteng Province of South Africa participated in this study. The school attracts learners from the affluent socio-economic group, and the majority of the learners are white (76.8%) and first language speakers of English (86%). These participants completed questionnaires using the matched-guise technique (Lambert, Hodgson, Gardner and Fillenbaum 1960) to determine their perceptions of six accents. Five speakers were recorded reading the same Mathematics lesson in English. One reader read the same passage twice, using a so-called Standard South African English accent for one recording and a second language accent of an isiZulu mother tongue speaker for the second recording. The results of this investigation indicate that high school girls are inclined to stereotype teachers according to the teachers’ accents. Some of the characteristics attributed to the non-standard English speaking teachers were positive, but generally learners held a negative perception of such teachers. There was very little change in this perception from Grade 8 to Grade 12. Of particular importance in the National Curriculum Statement for Grades 10 to 12 is that learners emerge from this phase of their schooling being “sensitive to issues of diversity such as poverty, inequality, race, gender, language, age, disability and other factors” (www.sabceducation.co.za/). The school where the research was conducted has addressed diversity in numerous ways in an attempt to prepare the learners for life in multilingual and multicultural South Africa. That the Grade 12 learners in this study, whether first language speakers of English or not, still display accent prejudice suggests that the life skills objectives are not adequately met and that this form of prejudice needs to be addressed in more creative ways.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING:: Hierdie studie stel belang in die verhouding tussen aksent en hoorders se waarneming van die spreker. Dit ondersoek die soort stereotipering wat saamhang met die fonologiese eienskappe van die spreker se taal. Hierdie tesis het spesifiek gefokus op die persepsies wat hoërskoolmeisies het van hul Wiskunde-opvoeders wat Engels met ‘n nie-standaard aksent praat. Die algemene doelstellings van die studie was om vas te stel of hoërskoolmeisies hierdie opvoeders negatief beoordeel op grond van hul aksent en, indien wel, of hierdie oordeel minder fel raak met ouerdom. Sewe-en-twintig Graad 8-leerders en 14 Graad 12-leerders aan ‘n privaat- Engels-medium skool in die Gauteng Provinsie van Suid-Afrika het aan die studie deelgeneem. Die skool se leerders kom uit die hoë sosio-ekonomiese groep, en die meerderheid is Wit (76.8%) en eerstetaalsprekers van Engels (86%). Die deelnemers het vraelyste voltooi as deel van sogenaamde “matched guise”- (Lambert, Hodgson, Gardner en Fillenbaum 1960) navorsing om hul persepsies van ses aksente te bepaal. Vyf sprekers is op band opgeneem terwyl hulle dieselfde Wiskunde-les in Engels lees. Een leser het die les twee maal gelees, een maal met ’n sogenaamde Standaard Suid-Afrikaanse Engelse aksent en een maal met ’n tweedetaal aksent tipies van ‘n isiZulu moedertaalspreker. Die resultate van hierdie ondersoek dui daarop dat hoërskoolmeisies geneig is om opvoeders te stereotipeer op grond van die opvoeders se aksent. Party eienskappe wat aan die nie-standaard Engelssprekende opvoeders toegeskryf is, was positief, maar oor die algemeen het leerders ’n negatiewe persepsie van sulke opvoeders gehad. Baie min verandering in hierdie persepsies het van Graad 8 tot Graad 12 plaasgevind. Van besondere belang in die Graad 10 tot 12 Nasionale Kurrikulm is dat leerders aan die einde van hierdie fase ‘n sensitiwiteit sal hê vir kwessies aangaande “diversiteit, soos armoede, ongelykheid, ras, geslag, taal, ouderdom, gestremdheid en ander faktore” (www.sabceducation.co.za/). Die skool waar hierdie navorsing gedoen is, spreek diversiteit op velerlei maniere aan in ’n poging om leerders voor te berei vir lewe in veeltalige en multikulturele Suid-Afrika. Die feit dat Graad 12- leerders in hierdie studie, of hulle eerstetaalsprekers van Engels is al dan nie, steeds aksentvooroordele toon, dui aan dat die doelstellings van lewensvaardigheid onderrig nie voldoende bereik word nie en dat hierdie vorm van vooroordeel op meer kreatiewe maniere aangespreek moet word.
Patalauskaitė, Indrė. "L'accentuation de la langue française et lituanienne." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2005. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050601_203223-65921.
Full textDabouis, Quentin. "L'accent secondaire en anglais britannique contemporain." Thesis, Tours, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016TOUR2013/document.
Full textThis study of secondary accent in contemporary British English stands in the approach developed by Lionel Guierre and is composed of a theoretical section and an empirical section. First, we present this approach and compare it to other contemporary theories. Secondly, after a literature review, we conduct the analysis of a corpus of 5829 words carrying a secondary accent. This study confirms that the presence and position of secondary accent are largely determined by rhythmical contraints. It also reveals new elements such as the role of opaque prefixes in the placement of secondary accent in both derived an non-derived words, the role of the relative frequency of the base and its derivatives accented :021 (-)/or the existenza of a rule determining the value of the accented vowel in the initial pretonic position
Petrone, Caterina. "Le rôle de la variabilité phonétique dans la représentation phonologique des contours intonatifs et de leur sens." Aix-Marseille 1, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008AIX1A117.
Full textComiti, Jean-Marie. "Langue Corse, de la variation à la polynomie : enquête sur les réactions des corses aux accents et à la variation linguistique." Corte, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991CORT0007.
Full textThroughout the study of corsican people's linguistic attitudes this work is intended to value the full significance of the concept of a "polynomic language" which was initiated by J. B. Marcellesi during the 17th international congress on romanic linguistics and philology (Aix-en-Provence, 1983). Confronted with dialectal variation, this evaluation mainly concerns corsican people's reactions in different fields such as : hierarchy, tolerance, recognition and norm. Attitudes towards hybrid productions, generated by the contact of languages, are studied too in this work. A question is proposed on the characteristics of the linguistic evolution of the corsican language
Chan, Ming-kei Kevin. "The processing and representation of lexical stress in the short-term memory of Cantonese-English successive bilinguals." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B34860769.
Full textChan, Ming-kei Kevin, and 陳銘基. "The processing and representation of lexical stress in the short-term memory of Cantonese-English successive bilinguals." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B34860769.
Full textCurtis, Emily Kathryn Jean. "Geminate weight : case studies and formal models /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8383.
Full textHardouin, Isabelle. "Analyse de méthodes techniques et auditives pour la caractérisation de l'accent de locuteurs allemands s'exprimant en français." Compiègne, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991COMPD427.
Full textFournier, Pierre. "Accentuation et prononciation des suffixés en -ous en anglais contemporain." Thesis, Tours, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011TOUR2013/document.
Full textThe influence of the suffix -ous on the English phonological system is considerable. Its impact is materialized on word-stress assignment, as well as on the phonetic realisation of stressed vowels. The study of this particular suffix generates a global perspective on the functioning of the English system since -ous is a blend of the fundamental principles which rule the English stress system. This analysis falls within the framework of the morphophonological theory, which favours an interaction between the morphological and phonological levels. The concept of morphological boundary is essential to the operation of word-stress assignment and represents a key-notion inside this theoretical framework. However, the impact of the suffix -ous on word-stress assignment and on the pronunciation of stressed vowels has already been investigated through several theoretical approaches. The most significant results of these previous studies are expounded in the theoretical part. The phonological frameworks are then compared in order to determine their assets and their drawbacks. Word-stress assignment only represents the first side of this work. Indeed, the assignment of primary stress on the syllabic structure of a word has a consequence on the phonetic realisation of stressed vowels. They are "fully" realised, and the succession of stressed and unstressed syllabes creates the notion of rythm in English. Resorting to spelling enables to predict the pronunciation of stressed vowels through the application of a hierarchical system of rules. These rules, elaborated on the particularities of English spelling, operate a transfer from spelling to sounds
Chen, Hsi-Ju. "Zum Wort-Ton-Verhältnis im musikalischen Humanismus : dargestellt an der weltlichen Vokalmusik von der Mitte des 16. bis um die Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts /." Köln : Dohr, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb401955034.
Full textDalban, Sandrine. "Etude phonologique de l'accent de Newcastle upon Tyne." Grenoble 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000GRE3A013.
Full textMoore, Mauroux Susan. "Les mots composés : analyse de schémas accentuels de l'anglais britannique standard." Poitiers, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002POIT5026.
Full textDourdet, Jean-Christophe. "L'atypicité accentuelle de l'espace linguistique occitan limousin : description et modélisation." Poitiers, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011POIT5008.
Full textIn Occitan, lexical stress is either final or penultimate depending on the nature of the ending whether it is a consonant or a vowel. However stress is not likely to be always realized where one would expect. This is particularly true dealing with Occitan from Limousin. Through the study of several subdialects within Limousin dialectal area, atypical marks are put into evidence in Limousin in opposition with the Languedocian system usually set as referential. Thanks to research completed so far, one cannot but realise how Limousin shows a large amount of oxytones especially in a central subdialectal area. Nonetheless, stress position is usually hard to predict for the nature of stress in Limousin largely depends on length. Therefore, stress position, sometimes easy to determine in some cases, remains quite uncertain in others, depending on the very nature of the last two vowels being long ones, nasal ones, diphthongs or even checked vowels. Aperture also appears to be an important criterion to understand the reasons for these atypical marks. To comprehend the phenomena involving lexical accent, one must also try to understand the intonation system, which has never been studied thoroughly in Limousin, to which no more than vague allusions are made such as « accent in running speech » or « sentence stress ». The study of the combination of stress and intonation can help explaining more precisely atypical marks in Limousin. This work finally aims at offering a description and a model as well for Limousin stress system in link with intonation
Eisenhower, Kristina. "American attitudes toward accented English." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79762.
Full textThe purpose of the present study was to determine the evaluative reactions of an American-born audience toward accented English speech. Fifty-three American college students listened to an audio recording of eight accented English speakers, four representing regional U.S. accent groups and four representing ethnic or foreign accent groups. The students' evaluative reactions indicated favoritism toward the American English speakers with a consistent downgrading of the ethnic speakers. Analysis of the personality ratings suggests that participants based their judgments to some extent on their perceptions of the accented speakers in terms of three dimensions: appeal, accommodation and aspiration. The conceptual affinity of these three dimensions and the subsequent revelation of three-dimensional model of "absolute accommodation" are discussed.
This exploratory study clearly implies a need for further research, particularly into educational programs or interventions aimed at countering the negative attitudes and stereotypes associated with language variety.
Duběda, Tomáš. "Unité accentuelle en français et en tchèque : caractérisation structurelle et acoustique." Paris 7, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA070086.
Full textTHE SUBJECT OF THE PRESENT THESIS IS PROSODIC SEGMENTATION, ITS PLACE WITHIN THE PROSODIC SYSTEM AND ITS RELATIONS TO LINGUISTIC FACTORS. THE STUDY AIMS TO CARACTERIZE THE STRESS UNIT lN A UNIVERSALIST PERSPECTIVE, AND SPECIFICALLY lN FRENCH AND CZECH. THE EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON IS BASED ON A BILINGUAL CORPUS. THE STRESS UNIT CAN BE CHARACTERIZED BY A SET OF STRUCTURAL AND ACOUSTIC CORRELATES, A PART OF WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE SURPRISINGLY SIMlLAR lN THE TWO LANGUAGES: DESPlTE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCES THAT EXIST BETWEEN FRENCH AND CZECH (PRIMARY STRESS WHICH IS FINAL lN FRENCH AND INITIAL lN CZECH, ACOUSTIC NATURE OF STRESS, MORPHOLOGY, WHICH IS ANALYTIC lN FRENCH AND SYNTHETIC lN CZECH), THE MEAN LENGTH OF THE UNIT (lN TERMS OF SYLLABLES), THE PRESENCE OF ISOCHRONY, THE FINAL LENGTHENING, THE INTONATION CONTOURS AND THE BEHA VIOUR OF INTENSITY ARE SUBJECT TO THE SAME UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES WHICH MAY HOWEVER DIFFER lN THEIR DIMENSIONS. THE STRESS, CHARACTERIZED BY A FIX POSITION lN THE TWO LANGUAGES, IS OFTEN TAKEN AS THE MAIN CRITERION OF SEGMENTATION. HOWEVER, SINCE ITS ACOUSTIC CORRELATES ARE OFTEN AMBIGUOUS, IT IS NECESSARY TO ADOPT A LESS RESTRICTIVE VIEW OF PROSODIC SEGMENTATION, WHICH WOULD RELY MORE ON THE INNER COHERENCE OF THE STRESS UNIT, AND WHICH WOULD DEFINE THE STRESS AS A CONFIGURATIVE PHENOMENON
Chan, Ming-kei Kevin, and 陳銘基. "The perception and production of lexical stress by Cantonese speakers of English." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39793886.
Full textChan, Ka-wai Ricky, and 陳嘉威. "Implicit learning of L2 word stress rules." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4961793X.
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Formarier, Marie. "Entre rhétorique et musique : le rythme latin de l'Antiquité au haut Moyen-Age." Lyon 3, 2009. https://scd-resnum.univ-lyon3.fr/in/theses/2009_in_formarier_m.pdf.
Full textPolitical eloquence is a sort of music. The difference between eloquence and music —either vocal or instrumental— is quantitative not qualitative”. Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Ist c. BC) thus faces with the crucial and challenging concern of the connection between rhetoric and music. Actually, those fields are both based on rhythm. My dissertation therefore addresses this question: to what extent the relationship between rhythm in speech and rhythm in song mirrors the linguistic, sociological, political and cultural changes that altered the Latin society from Cicero to Guido of Arezzo? In ancient Greece, musical rhythm has to be in time because songs are usually danced, whereas oratory rhythm must not follow a beat. According to Cicero, oratory rhythm is definitely different from musical rhythm and poetic metre because it is built on continually changing patterns. Those rhythmic principles are particularly vivid in the early Middle Ages, especially in Christian chant. Although Latin has been deeply altered, the rhythmic set of laws established by Cicero is still helpful in the composition of Christian melodies, mainly in what Guido of Arezzo calls cantus prosaicus
Garnier, Laury. "Quels liens entre accentuation et niveaux de constituance en français ? : une analyse perceptive et acoustique." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018TOU20010/document.
Full textIn French, accentuation is said to be post-lexical, marking the phrase rather than the word. That is, the primary final accent (FA) is considered to be perceptively weakened when co-occurring with a major prosodic boundary, while the Initial Accent (IA), regarded as a secondary and optional accent, is thought to hold merely a rhythmic function in balancing longer constituents. Consequently, only two levels of prosodic constituency are accounted for in French: the Intonational Phrase (IP), and the Accentual Phrase (AP). The existence of a third level, the Intermediate Phrase (ip), while advanced by some authors, remains controversial. Moreover, the Prosodic Word (PW) (i.e. lexical word) as a phonological unit, or as the domain of accentual rules, is disregarded altogether. The aim of our study is to investigate the organization of prosodic phrasing in French. We propose a perception study on a corpus in which syntactically ambiguous structures were manipulated, and asked 80 participants to perform 3 distinct perception tasks: a prominence, boundary and grouping task. The perceived prosodic events were then related to their acoustic realization. Taken together, our results indicate that listeners are able to distinguish finer-grained grouping levels than those predicted in traditional French descriptions. Moreover, lexical words are systematically realized by an accentual bipolarization (IA+FA), with each accent carrying the same metrical weight. The function of IA is shown to be more one of structuration than rhythmic balancing, with IA even marking structure more readily than FA. Finally, our results indicate that FA is not perceptively weakened when co-occurring with major prosodic boundaries, but instead remains a metrical mark at the level of the lexical word, in a manner independent from the level of constituency
Coquillon, Annelise. "Caractérisation prosodique du parler de la région marseillaise." Aix-Marseille 1, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005AIX10045.
Full textBurbaitė, Asta. "„Lietuvių kalbos gramatikos“ I tomo kirčiavimo morfonologiniai principai." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2006. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060614_134046-13548.
Full textLee, Pui-wah, and 李佩華. "The study of English in China with particular reference to accent and vocabulary." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3195361X.
Full textDahak, Anissa. "Étude diachronique, phonologique et morphologique des syllabes inaccentuées en anglais contemporain." Paris 7, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA070038.
Full textThis thesis aims at accounting for the presence of full vowels in unstressed syllables in contemporary English, such as those in the words ' benzol, ? dehy’ dration, e lectrode, ' precedented. The study of the corpus (a computerised version of J. Wells's Longman Pronunciation Dictionary) shows that, dependïng on the position of the syllable with regard to stress, the percentage of unreduced vowels varies considerably (very low in some positions, much higher in others). Detailed research of the corpus bas revealed that these important differences are linked to a number of parameters. Results indicate that morphology plays a major role in processes of (non-Reduction, but the consonantal environment, which is discussed in detail, also proves to be significant. Other parameters, such as stress variation, loanwords and rhythm are also taken into account in the analysis. However, the various parameters are not exclusive and are often combined. In the end, a correlation between the probability of finding an unreduced vowel and the numbers of parameters at stake is brought to light
Laks, Bernard. "Problèmes de phonologie cognitive : la question de la constituance en phonologie métrique." Paris 8, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA080855.
Full textWe propose a critical account of the currently proposed models for stress assignment. Having shown empirical and formal shortcomings of those, we propose an alternative autosegmental and rhythmic model. We show that our model can be given a connectionist interpretation. We then propose a complete cognitive and connectionist architecture that deal with mental representations, meaning construction, rules and processes
Girard, Frédérique. "Le traitement des accents dans la reconnaisance des mots chez l'adulte et l'enfant." Besançon, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2009BESA1003.
Full textIn this thesis, we examined the processing costs triggered by the presentation of a regional accent in continuous speech in adult participants. Seven lexical decision experiments manipulating the duration and the presentation conditions of accented speech indicate that regional accent normalisation involves a short-term adjustment mechanism that develops as a certain amount of signal is available, resulting in a temporary perturbation in speech processing. These results are discussed in regard to recent models of lexical access. In 5- to 6-year-old children, we examined how metaphonological awareness for accented-related speech emerges. In four categorization and discrimination experiments, we found that children were less able to discriminate non familiar regional accent features rather than foreign accent features. The relation between this asymmetry and children’s amount of exposure to accents is discussed, together with the relation between this asymmetry and accent learnability
Woehrling, Cécile. "Accents régionaux en français : perception, analyse et modélisation à partir de grands corpus." Phd thesis, Université Paris Sud - Paris XI, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00617248.
Full textRietmolen, Noemie te. "Neural signature of metrical stress processing in French." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019TOU20006.
Full textThe current dissertation presents an ERP-investigation of metrical stress processing in French. Indeed, while metrical stress is well known to play an invaluable role in speech comprehension, its functions in French speech processing are unclear. French is a language traditionally described as having no accent. This dissertation questions the traditional view and aligns to two metrical models on French accentuation, which propose stress to be encoded in cognitive templates underlying the abstract representation of the word. In our interdisciplinary investigation of metrical stress processing in French, we take a functional, yet metrically rooted, approach. We use the method of Event-Related Potentials (ERP), which provides us with a highly sensitive and temporally precise measure allowing us to determine whether there is metrical stress in French, and to what extent metrical stress aids the listener in speech comprehension. We will show that metrical stress facilitates processing throughout French comprehension and argue for metrical stress, as well as the domain of the word, to be given a more prominent place in the descriptions of French prosody
Fathi, Radwa. "La longueur vocalique en arabe égyptien : une nouvelle conception." Paris 7, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA070045.
Full textThe dissertation is devoted to the study of the vowel system of an Arabic variety spoken in the major urban centers in northern Egypt, k*own under the generic terra "Egyptian Arabic. " The first common thread that runs through all chapters of the dissertation is to establish descriptive generalizations on issues that have not yet received the proper attention, descriptions that constitute true linguistic generalizations of a type likely to feed theoretical elaboration. A detailed analysis of a comprehensive fragment of fresh data using analytical tools different from those previously used by my predecessors is offered. The main argument of the dissertation is that the key to the interpretation of the most prominent vowel-related events in this language lies in the interdependence of vowel quality and vowel quantity. Only phonologically long vowels can maintain their quality on the phonetic level, otherwise they become incapable of surfacing. The establishment of the new construal of vowel length in Egyptian Arabic was also made possible through comparison with other varieties of Arabic whose diachrony and parameters are relatively well understood, namely Classical Arabic and the Arabic spoken in the Maghreb. With the proliferation of valuable research on contemporary varieties of spoken Arabic, the prospect of defming the parameters responsible for the identification and stabilization of each language or dialect appears to be within reach. This is the other common thread running through the dissertation. The dissertation in this respect contributes to the enhancement of the study of Arabic dialectology
Zumstein, Franck. "Variation accentuelle, variation phonétique : étude systématique fondée sur des corpus lexico-phonétiques informatisés anglais." Poitiers, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007POIT5025.
Full textIn this piece of work is examined word-stress variation in contemporary English, such as in the word "controversy" (stressed /1000/ or /0100/). Our linguistic analyses are based on automatic data retrieval from a computer-readable version of John Well's "Longman Pronunciation Dictionary" published in 1990. Eighteenth and nineteenth century English dictionaries are also consulted so as to determine whether variants are old stressings or new patterns. The results of this study, which is a follow-up of Lionel Guierre's work on word stress in English, highlight the direction of the change of the alternating stress patterns and show that regular criteria, notably the meaning of words, account for such variations
Girard, Isabelle. "Isomorphisme en anglais contemporain : étude de quelques suffixes." Tours, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007TOUR2024.
Full textThe purpose of our study is to continue developing Guierre's conclusions on the roles of derivational isomorphism and analogy within the overall stress-pattern system of contemporary English. This study consists in a set of morpho-phonological analyses based on a selection of adjectival (-al, -(at)ory, -(at)ive) and nominal (-age, -al, -ist) suffixes which are phonologically complex. It aims at exploring and explaining the conflicting relationships between derivational isomorphism and two main types of analogy ("isomorphisme intra-paradigmatique" and "isomorphisme inter-paradigmatique"), paying particular attention to the productivity of the suffixes studied and to the divergent treatment of the irregularity of some isomorphic stress-patterns. Our analysis reveals the existence of a complex network of inter-paradigmatic relationships between transparent and non transparent suffixed words which seems to be ruled by the supremacy of micro-systemic analogy over macro-systemic analogy
Abasq, Véronique. "Préfixation et particules adverbiales en anglais contemporain : étude du comportement accentuel." Tours, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007TOUR2050.
Full textZhang, Lan, and 章澜. "Development and assessment of an acoustics-based multisensory accent reduction system." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B48330188.
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Amrani, Abderrahim. "Analyse des éléments rythmiques de base de l'arabe marocain." Besançon, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997BESA1009.
Full textWe have attempted to determine the basic rhythmic elements in morrocan arabic. The fundamental question was to find out if rhythm in morrocan arabic is related to sterss or quantitative principles. The first chapter deals with universal rhythm principles in production and in perception with particular reference to structure and isochrony. In the second chapter, the place of morrocan arabic is discussed in the linguistic landscape of morroco. The third chapter deals with the question of quantity from two points of view : diachronic and synchronic. Chapter 4 looks at syllable stress and quantity correlation and in chapter 5, the correlation of quantity and syllable structure is analysed. We have concluded that the global syllabe duration does not permit to distinguish timing in morrocan and in standard arabic but rather the relative duration of phonems within the syllable. Chapter 6 deals with this point and reveals that these two languages have different syllable mode organisation
Astesano, Corine. "Rythme et discours : invariance et sources de variabilité des phénomènes accentuels en français." Aix-Marseille 1, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999AIX10010.
Full textSalsignac, Jeanne. "Perception de l'accent primaire de langues étrangéres à structures accentuelles différentes : perspectives pour la didactique du Français Langue Etrangére." Toulouse 2, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996TOU20051.
Full textTwo hypotheses are generally put forward to explain how we perceive primary stress in a foreign language. 1- the listener would respond to the acoustic cues (purely 'bottom-up' processing). 2- he would be influenced by his stress habits ('top-down' processing). These hypotheses are not mutually exclusive. The second one, refering to polivanov and troubetzkoy 'crible' - a kind of filter -, requires clarification and experimental confirmation. In every language, primary stress can be characterized by its nature, its degree of prominence and its position. From our view point, if a stress is very prominent, its perception should be the outcome of a 'bottom-up' processing. On the contrary, when perceiving a less prominent stress, the listener should be influenced by the nature and or position of native primary stress. Eventually, familiarity with a second language could generate a second 'crible', in addition to, or in place of the mother 'crible'. A corpus made of words and sentences in seven languages - french, turkish, polish, czech, hungarian, russian, spanish - was recorded. Fourteen listeners (two native speakers of each language) were required to indicate which syllables they perceived as prominent in one or several of these languages. The twelve non-french listeners were more or less familiar with french. Our results are quite in accordance with our predictions. Two subjects could be categorized as purely 'bottom-up' hearers. The other subjects, when perceiving the least prominent stresses, could be categorized as "top-down' hearers : they were influenced by their 'crible' (that is by their mother tongue and or by their second language, french). This study, which allows a better understanding of primary stress perception in a foreign language, leads us to make suggestions for the teaching of french as a foreign language
Chan, Nga-ting, and 陳雅庭. "A study of English pronunciation teaching of stress and rhythm to Cantonese speakers." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4517605X.
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