Year: 2014
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Intonation seems to be one of the major cues for identifying youth language in the Paris region. As part of a large-scale corpus-based analysis, this paper attempts to model a rise-fall prosodic pattern, considered to be representative of a Paris working-class suburbs accent. Comparison with the emphatic rise-fall prosodic pattern, well-known in general French, will provide the opportunity for sociolinguistic insights. The ethnic hypothesis is dismissed in favor of a context-bound and interaction sensitive interpretation.
Source: Speech prosody
Institutions: Modèles Dynamiques Corpus, University of Geneva
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1787723480