Banner Portal
Prosodic features of situational variation across nine speaking styles in french
PDF

Keywords

Speaking style
Prosody
Situational features
Corpus annotation
Acoustic measurement

How to Cite

1.
Prsir T, Goldman J-P, Auchlin A. Prosodic features of situational variation across nine speaking styles in french . J. of Speech Sci. [Internet]. 2021 Feb. 5 [cited 2024 Mar. 29];4(1):41-60. Available from: https://econtents.bc.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/joss/article/view/15051

Abstract

This paper presents results from an on-going study of prosodic and phonostylistic variation across speaking styles, i.e., acoustic images associated to types of language production, also called phonogenres. It extends previous work in (1, 2) by enlarging the corpus (C-PhonoGenre, 8 hours) and by exploring a more comprehensive collection of genres. The situational parameters in (3, 4) are reduced to four situational features, each admitting three values, the combination of which differentiates sub-phonogenres. The main goal of this study is to establish correlations between the situational and prosodic features of discourse. Corpus processing, annotation and measure calculation are performed semi-automatically, through a set of tools implemented under Praat and manual steps. Rhythmical measurements by DurationAnalyser (5) combined with the output of ProsoReport (6) produce an acoustic analysis of the differences between phonogenres. A large number of micro- and macro-prosodic measures provide a finegrained ‘prosometric’ description. This article presents the methodology for collecting the corpus, and results for the phonogenres.

https://doi.org/10.20396/joss.v4i1.15051
PDF

References

Goldman J-P, Auchlin A, Simon AC. Discrimination de styles de parole par analyse prosodique semi-automatique. In Yoo HY, Delais-Roussarie E, editors. Actes d’IDP 2009; Septembre 2009; Paris; 2011. p. 207–221. Available from: http://makino.linguist.jussieu.fr/idp09/docs/IDP_actes/Articles/Goldman.pdf.

Simon AC, Auchlin A, Avanzi M, Goldman J-P. Les phonostyles: une description prosodique des styles de parole en français. In: Abecassis M, Ledegen G, editors. Les voix des Français. En parlant, en écrivant. vol. 2. Berne: Peter Lang; 2010. p. 71–88.

Lucci V. Étude phonétique du français contemporain à travers la variation situationnelle. Grenoble: Université des langues et lettres de Grenoble; 1983.

Koch P, Oesterreicher W. Langage parlé et langage écrit. In: Holtus G, Metzeltin M, Schmitt CH, editors. Lexikon der Romanistischen Linguistik. vol. I/2. Tübingen: Niemeyer; 2001. p. 584–627.

Dellwo V. Influences of speech rate on the acoustic correlates of speech rhythm: An experimental phonetic study based on acoustic and perceptual evidence [PhD-Dissertation]. Universität Bonn. Bonn; 2010.

Goldman JP, Simon AC, Auchlin A, Avanzi M. Phonostylographe, un outil de description des phonostyles prosodiques. Nouveaux Cahiers de Linguistique Française. 2007;28:219–237. Available from: http://clf.unige.ch/display.php?numero=28&idFichier=110.

Beacco JC. Trois perspectives linguistiques sur la notion de genre discursif. Langages. 2004; 38/153:109–119.

Solin A. Genre. In: Zienkowski J, Ostman JA, Verschueren J, editors. Discursive Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins; 2011. p. 119–134.

Bawarshi AS, Reiff MJ. Genre: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy. West Lafayette, Indiana: Parlor Press; 2010.

Léon P. Précis de phonostylistique. Parole et expressivité. Paris: Nathan Université; 1993.

Fónagy I, Fónagy J. Prosodie professionnelle et changements prosodiques. Le Français Moderne 44; 1976. p. 193–228.

Llisterri J. Speaking styles in speech research. In: ELSNET/ESCA/SALT Workshop on Integrating Speech and Natural Language. Dublin, Ireland; 1992. Available from: http://liceu.uab.cat/~joaquim/publicacions/SpeakingStyles_92.pdf.

Eskénazi M. Trends in Speaking Styles Research. In: Proceedings of Eurospeech ’93: 3rd European conference on speech communication and technology. Berlin, Germany: ESCA European Speech Communication Association; 1993. Available from: http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/eurospeech_1993/e93_0501.html.

Boula de Mareüil P. Accents et styles. Une étude à base de perception et d’analyses acoustiques à travers le traitement automatique de la parole [HDR]. Université Paris 3. Paris; 2012.

Obin N, Lacheret-Dujour A, Veaux C, Rodet X, Simon AC. A Method for Automatic and Dynamic Estimation of Discourse Genre Typology with Prosodic Features. In: Proceedings of InterSpeech 2008. Brisbane, Australia: ISCA; 2008. p. 1204–1207. Available from: http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/archive_papers/interspeech_2008/i08_1204.pdf.

Hirschberg J. A corpus-based approach to the study of speaking style. In: Prosody: Theory and Experiment-Studies Presented to Gösta Bruce. Dordrecht: Kluwer; 2000.

Avanzi M, Simon AC, Goldman J-P, Auchlin A. C-PROM. Un corpus de français parlé annoté pour l’étude des proéminences. XXVIIIèmes Journées d’Etude sur la Parole JEP 2010 [Internet]. Mons, Belgique: Université de Mons; 2010. p. 73–76. Available from: http://www.afcpparole.org/doc/Archives_JEP/2010_XXVIIIe_JEP_Mons/2010_XXVIIIe_JEP_Mons.pdf.

Avanzi M, Schwab S, Dubosson P, Goldman J-P. La prosodie de quelques variétés de français parlées en Suisse romande. In: Simon AC, editor. La variation prosodique régionale en français. Bruxelles: De Boeck/Duculot; 2012. p. 89–119.

Boersma P, Weenink D. Praat: doing phonetics by computer. Available from: http://www.praat.org

Goldman JP. EasyAlign: An Automatic Phonetic Alignment Tool Under Praat. In: Interspeech’11, 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. Firenze, Italy; 2011. p. 3233–3236. Available from: http://archiveouverte.unige.ch/unige:18188.

Christodoulides G, Avanzi M, Goldman J-P. DisMo: A Morphosyntactic, Disfluency and Multi-Word Unit Annotator: An Evaluation on a Corpus of French Spontaneous and Read Speech. In: Proceedings of 9th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2014. Reykjavik, Iceland; 26-31 May.

Mertens P. A Predictive Approach to the Analysis of Intonation in Discourse in French. In: Kawaguchi Y, Fónagy I, Moriguchi T, editors. Prosody and Syntax. Series "Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics" 3. Amsterdam: John Benjamins; 2006. p. 64-101.

Goldman J-P, Avanzi M, Simon AC, Auchlin A. A Continuous Prominence Score Based on Acoustic Features. In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2012. Portland, USA. p. 2454-2457.

Morel M, Lacheret-Dujour A, Lyche Ch, Poiré F. Vous avez dit proéminence? Actes des XXVIes Journées d’études sur la parole (JEP) 2006. Dinard, France; 12-16 June.

Mertens P. The Prosogram: Semi-Automatic Transcription of Prosody based on a Tonal Perception Model. In: Bel B, Marlien I, editors. Proceedings of Speech Prosody (SP) 2004. Nara, Japan; 23-26 March.

d'Alessandro C, Mertens P. Automatic pitch contour stylization using a model of tonal perception. Computer Speech and Language 9(3); 1995. p. 257-288.

Kern F. Speaking dramatically: The prosody of live radio commentary of football matches. In: Barth-Weingarten D, Reber E, Selting M, editors. Prosody in interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins; 2010. p. 217–237.

Simon AC, editor. La variation prosodique régionale en français. Bruxelles: De Boeck/Duculot; 2012.

Audrit S, Pršir T, Auchlin A, Goldman J-P. Sport in the media: a contrasted study of three sport live media reports with semi-automatic Tools. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2012 [Internet]. Shanghai, China: Tongji University Press; 2012. Available from: http://www.speechprosody2012.org/uploadfiles/file/sp2012_submission_170.pdf

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Copyright (c) 2014 Tea Prsir, Jean-Philippe Goldman, Antoine Auchlin

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.