Swiss French Prosody: Intonation, Rate, and Speaking Style in the Vaud Canton

The findings for the study on Vaudois spontaneous speech may account for this alignment difference. An analysis of the tonal alignment of each point in the major phrase-final LHL pattern helped to determine their phonological status as perhaps a bitonal pitch accent (LH*) followed by a boundary tone (L%). An optional H phrase tone was found to sometimes occur as well. The possible insertion of these boundary tones may create the need to align LH* earlier in Vaudois French.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

French

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Miller, Jessica Sertling

Contributors dc:contributor

• Zsuzsanna Fagyal-Le Mentec

• Language, Modern

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3290464

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86278