L’unité intonative dans les textes oralisés // Intonation unit in read speech

Abstract

Prosodic phrasing, i.e. division of speech into intonation units, represents a phenomenon which is central to language comprehension. Incorrect prosodic boundary markings may lead to serious misunderstandings and ambiguous interpretations of utterances. The present paper investigates prosodic competencies of Czech students of French in the domain of prosodic phrasing in French read speech. Two texts of different length are examined through a perceptual method to observe how Czech speakers of French (B1–B2 level of CEFR) divide read speech into prosodic units compared to French native speakers.

Keywords

• prosodic phrasing
• intonation unit
• prosodic competencies
• read speech
• segmentation prosodique
• unité intonative
• compétences prosodiques
• parole lue