Functions of the French Initial Accent: a Preliminary Study
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Previous studies have proposed that the French phonological system includes an Initial Accent on lexical words, which has rhythmic functions. Descriptions of English prosody propose that phonological phrases may have an early accent as a boundary marker. We report results from a preliminary production experiment, which tested the structural and rhythmic functions of the F0 of initial syllables. Our results showed that the F0 is used in French as a (left) phrase boundary marker, and that its value appeared to be correlated to prosodic constituent length.
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تاریخ انتشار 2002