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Date: 14-Dec-2005
From: Alexis Michaud < Alexis.Michaud at univ-paris3.fr >
Subject: Prosodie de langues à tons (naxi et vietnamien), prosodie de l?anglais : éclairages croisés 

	
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Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 12:15:13
From: Alexis Michaud < Alexis.Michaud at univ-paris3.fr >
Subject: Prosodie de langues à tons (naxi et vietnamien), prosodie de l?anglais : éclairages croisés 
 


Institution: University of Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle 
Program: Laboratoire de Phonétique et de Phonologie 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2005 

Author: Alexis Michaud

Dissertation Title: Prosodie de langues à tons (naxi et vietnamien), prosodie
de l?anglais : éclairages croisés 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Naxi (nbf)


Dissertation Director(s):
Jacqueline Vaissière

Dissertation Abstract:

Comparison of English with two Asian tone languages (Naxi and Vietnamese)
suggests that lexical specifications (phonemic contrasts and lexical
accentuation) and intonation stand in a relationship of resource-sharing:
the former provide the framework within which intonational variation takes
on its meaning. Typologically, each language arguably allows speakers a
given degree of freedom; Naxi (4 lexical tones) appears more constrained
than English, and also than Vietnamese (although the latter has 6 tones).
The experimental results (which include an estimation of voice quality by
electroglottography) hint at the presence of a superposition of several
phenomena, rather than one single prosodic structure. They allow for a
discussion of a question raised by the autosegmental-metrical framework of
intonation studies: do accentuation and intonation converge to shape a
tonal string for the utterance (in all languages)? The results suggest that
the latter view may be an oversimplification. 




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