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Intonation analysis: the 'British' School, IViE, and the prosody of English dialects| old_uid | 12199 |
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| title | Intonation analysis: the 'British' School, IViE, and the prosody of English dialects |
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| start_date | 2016/10/01 |
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| schedule | 11h-12h |
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| online | no |
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| details | Cette plénière (en libre accès) aura lieu dans le cadre de l'édition 2016 du colloque PAC, intitulée "Les mélodies de l'anglais", qui se tiendra au Laboratoire Parole et Langage à Aix-en-Provence, du 29 septembre au 1er octobre 2016. |
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| summary | As early as the 17th century British scholars were commenting on the melody of speech, later sometimes achieving impressive insights as in the case of Joshua Steele's 1775 'An essay towards establishing the melody and measure of speech' which will be briefly described. In the latter part of the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century a class of intonation models emerged which are compatible with many of the concepts underlying intonation analysis today. These models were generally motivated by pedagogical needs rather than phonological theory, but in some of them can be seen developing the notions which underpin today's dominant 'intonological' approaches. The emergence will be traced in the field of intonation of phonological notions such as invariant abstract units with a variable relation to both realisation and meaning, phonotactic restrictions on their occurrence, and the mapping of the abstract units to a narrower phonetic representation. A comparison will be made between the 'British' approach and current autosegmental-metrical approaches, including a review of the 'IViE' project which used an analysis compatible with both approaches to describe differences in the English accents of the British Isles. |
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