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An acoustic profile of right-dislocations in French

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2008

William J. Ashby
William J. Ashby
Affiliation:
College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106, U.S.A.
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Abstract

This study provides an acoustic profile of the prosody of right-dislocations in French, using the computer hardware and software package known as CECIL. Twenty-eight right-dislocations occurring in a corpus of natural French discourse provide the data for the acoustic analysis. While right-dislocations appear to fulfil various functional roles in discourse, no correlation appears between functional type and the acoustic properties studied (pause, frequency, amplitude).

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Journal of French Language Studies , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , September 1994 , pp. 127 - 145
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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