Regional variations of speech rhythm in French : in search of lost times
(2012) 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody — Location: Shanghai (22.May.2012)
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- This paper addresses the relevancy of speech rhythm acoustic measures for the description of some standard, regional and contact varieties of French. First, the limitations of conventional measures of speech rhythm, such as (%V, ΔC) [Ramus et al. 1999] and Pairwise Variability Index [Grabe & Low 2002], for the description of French regional variations is discussed. Then, alternative acoustic measures of speech rhythm, based on long-term characteristics associated with timing (regularity of accentual phrases) and tempo (articulation rate, speech rate) are introduced and discussed. A comparison with the conventional measures indicates that long-term measures conduct to a classification which is more consistent with the expected classification, either for the description of continuous similarities or categorical grouping. .
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Université de Neuchâtel chaire de linguistique IRCAM - CNRS IRCAM - CNRS Université d'Oslo, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre MoDyCo
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Obin, N., Avanzi, M., Bordal, G., & Bardiaux, A. (2012). Regional variations of speech rhythm in French : in search of lost times. In Qiuwu Ma, Hongwei Ding, Daniel Hirst (ed.), Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody, vol.1 (pp. 406-409). Tongji University Press. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/221891