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When aussi 'also' mixes things up: Prosodic disambiguation of association with additive focus in French

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The present research investigated the prosodic disambiguation of the additive focus adverbe (FA) aussi ‘also’ in French through a production experiment, aimed to define the intonation pattern when the associate of 'aussi' is located (a) in the middle of the sentence as an argument of verb or (b) at the end as an adjunct. Every sentence was preceded by a disambiguating context. The prosodic analysis using F_ToBI (Delais-Roussarie et al., 2015) shows a dominant pattern of H* L- for middle-position associates (50% of the cases). This pattern is mainly located in the final syllable of the associate, indicating a high pitch accent followed by a boundary tone, which marks the boundary of narrow focus. An early H* peak (in the penultimate syllable) is an interesting phonetic cue in this position, especially appearing with long associates. For the associate in final position, the intonation patterns appeared more varied. The most frequent pattern, Hi L* L%, accounts for 37.5% of the corpus and represents the typical intonation at the end of declaratives in French. In this final position, an added pause just before the associate may serve as an important acoustic cue. Furthermore, a prosodic prominence was found on aussi, with H* systematically appearing on /si/ (unlike previous findings : Benazzo & Patin 2017). Using the production experiment data, a perception experiment was conducted to explore the identification of the associate by French speakers. Results revealed a significant effect of the associate position, indicating better performance when the associate is in the middle position of the sentences (p < 0.01). Both findings raise questions about the role of proximity between FA and associate in the prosodic realisation of the latter, which might be explored in the future through online experiments such as eye-tracking. Future research will also include a more comprehensive statistical analysis for the production data, and a more finegrained analysis of the perceptual cues used to identify the final associate.
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Haohan Zhang, Lisa Brunetti, Hiyon Yoo. When aussi 'also' mixes things up: Prosodic disambiguation of association with additive focus in French. 46th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2024), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft - DGfS, Feb 2024, Bochum (RUB), Germany. ⟨hal-04507186⟩
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