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| Articulation (Speech) | 1 |
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| Intonation | 1 |
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Download full textDelattre, Pierre – The French Review, 1966
This study of 10 intonation curves, representative of speech patterns in French, entails spectrographic analysis of the variations of fundamental frequency, intensity, and duration. Discriminatory auditory tests are based on semantic oppositions caused by single intonation contrasts. The seven distinctive classes called "intonemes" are: (1) minor…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), Distinctive Features (Language), French
