Cross-linguistic prosodic transcription: French vs. English

(version PDF imprimable; le PDF déposé pour la version 1 n'était pas imprimable. Le texte est inchangé.)This paper aims to give an insight into some specific traits of French prosody. By illustrating<br />the specificity of French, the aim is to bring to light some characteristics which make French<br />prosodically very different from English and other stress languages. The discussion thus comes to<br />grips with the difficulties of elaborating a unique way of describing prosody across languages.<br />An introductory part deals with some of the current methods for describing intonation. Wellknown<br />notions concerning French prosody are then recalled succinctly. Finally, some basic traits<br />of French are expounded and illustrated