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ABSTRACT Dans cette étude, nous présentons trois types de pause produites à l'intérieur d... more ABSTRACT Dans cette étude, nous présentons trois types de pause produites à l'intérieur du constituant intono-syntaxique et qui sont les suivantes : les pauses de démarcation déplacées, utilisées par les locuteurs pour conserver leur tour de parole ; les pauses d'hésitation (produites à des fins de recherche lexicale) et les pauses de focalisation qui ont pour fonction de mettre en relief un élément du discours. L'approche adoptée met en relation les niveaux discursif, prosodique et gestuel. Seule la combinaison de trois niveaux d'analyse permet de distinguer les différentes fonctions des pauses.

The proposal in this pilot study is to present a prosodic and gestural analysis of testimonials o... more The proposal in this pilot study is to present a prosodic and gestural analysis of testimonials on emotions in English and French, the premise being that while recollecting emotions, speakers give some representation of the emotions they convey. They actually shift from neutral to more emotional speech. The corpus described below is a series of podcasts in which ordinary people from different countries have been video recorded giving their opinion on issues that involve emotional speech. Three emotions have been considered: cold anger, sadness and happiness, and in terms of prosody, the paper concentrates on the intonation contours used by the speakers rather than on pitch span and F0 level. The annotation of gestures made with ELAN is based on a modified version of the MUMIN Coding Scheme and the conclusion of the paper is that speech is felt to be more emotional when a set of prosodic and gestural parameters is modified from more neutral speech, e.g. smiles or laughs do not in themselves convey happiness, but must be combined with other gestural and prosodic features to do so.

Gaelle.Ferre@univ-nantes.fr RÉSUMÉ. La compréhension des mécanismes du langage nécessite de prend... more Gaelle.Ferre@univ-nantes.fr RÉSUMÉ. La compréhension des mécanismes du langage nécessite de prendre en compte très précisément les interactions entre les différents domaines ou modalités linguistiques, ce qui implique la constitution et le développement de ressources. Nous décrivons ici le CID (Corpus of Interactional Data), corpus audio-vidéo de 8 heures, en français, constitué au Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL). L'annotation multimodale du CID inclut la phonétique, la prosodie, la morphologie, la syntaxe, le discours et la mimo-gestualité. Les premiers résultats de nos études sur le CID permettent de confirmer l'intérêt d'une annotation multimodale pour mieux comprendre le fonctionnement du discours.

In this paper, our intention is to analyse the marking of focalisation pauses in a videotaped cor... more In this paper, our intention is to analyse the marking of focalisation pauses in a videotaped corpus of British conversation. Our analysis will be three-dimensional : we will first describe the acoustic characteristics of the pauses and of the tone-units they separate, in order to show the differences between these pauses and other pauses such as demarcative or hesitation pauses. This analysis will include the following parameters : length of pause and rate of speech of the distinct tone-units, F0 movements and intensity before and after the pause. We will then try to see what kind of gestuality is implied in the case of focalisation and will propose a discursive analysis of the context in which the pauses appear.

The paper presents a project of the Laboratoire Parole et Langage which aims at collecting, annot... more The paper presents a project of the Laboratoire Parole et Langage which aims at collecting, annotating and exploiting a corpus of spoken French in a multimodal perspective. The project directly meets the present needs in linguistics where a growing number of researchers become aware of the fact that a theory of communication which aims at describing real interactions should take into account the complexity of these interactions. However, in order to take into account such a complexity, linguists should have access to spoken corpora annotated in different fields. The paper presents the annotation schemes used in phonetics, morphology and syntax, prosody, gestuality at the LPL together with the type of linguistic description made from the annotations seen in two examples.

This paper relates a pilot study on intensive gestures in French -e.g. gestures which accompany s... more This paper relates a pilot study on intensive gestures in French -e.g. gestures which accompany speech and participate in the highlighting of some discourse elements which the paper means to determine. The study is based on spontaneous French informal conversation and the intensive gestures correlates we looked at pertained to the morphological, prosodic and gestural dimensions.

This paper is based on a video recording of a face to face interaction between two British girls.... more This paper is based on a video recording of a face to face interaction between two British girls. In another study on the characteristics of young people's speech involving the same corpus I noticed that one of the specificities of my two speakers lied in the constant repetitions of segments. Some segments are not only repeated in the case of hesitation but also as a stylistic device. I propose to describe in the present paper the stylistic repetitions in terms of what kind of segments are repeated and what is the role of such repetitions. Taking into account lexico-syntactic, prosodic and gestural parameters, I will also show that these repetitions cannot be assimilated to some hesitation on the parts of the speakers.

This paper is an analysis of narratives in British English conversation. It shows that prosody an... more This paper is an analysis of narratives in British English conversation. It shows that prosody and gestures made by the speaker align to the pragmatic structure of narratives and are especially used to distinguish the climax, e.g. the point of the narrative. Indeed I will show that the climax is most of the time uttered with a slower speech rate and higher voice intensity than the rest of the narrative. It is also accompanied by more gestures than the other parts of the narrative, and for the narrative to be successful these gestures must show speaker concern for the partner in the interaction. * I am particularly grateful to Traci Curl and Gareth Walker for their most useful discussion of this article. I would also like to thank Richard Ogden for his comments on a much shorter version of this paper that helped develop the few ideas I had then proposed. Correspondence: