L'oral

Laurent DANON BOILEAU et Mary-Annick MOREL : Oral language : invariance and variations Generally speaking typologies and analyses of the oral speech chain are based on an analysis of the verb, i.e. of the rhema. Our standpoint is radically different. We feel that, in a certain number of languages (French, English, Moroccan-Arab, Modern Greek, Japanese, Portugese, Turkish), the invariant part of the chain is what comes before the rhema. We also based our approach upon the analysis of intonation. Our feeling is that Fo variation is essential both as an indicator of the relation between speaker and adressée and as a mean to sequence the speech chain. It is only when Fo variation is altered by stress and a lack of flexional morphology that duration and pause are required

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