Description prosodique et syntaxique du discours en français : données et hypothèses
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Abstract EN:
Our dissertation is concerned with the linguistic description of spoken french, along a double approach : prosodic and syntactic. The first chapter describes the way in which researchers in the field of prosody have come to view the supresegmental elements of language as centrally involved in spoken communication. We then review several methods for collecting and transcribing spoken language data. The second part of our study is concerned with linguistic description of spoken french, starting with the prosodic aspect. We first present some studies which have insisted on the formal characteristic of the suprasegmental phenomena, and present some major theoretical discussions regarding the relationship between phonetic form and meaning. Next, we introduce the hierarchical model which a. Di cristo and d. Hirst have elaborated in aix-en-provence. The other aspect that we have treated in the second chapter is syntax. Our research is based on a conception which has been postulated quite recently, according to which the grammatical field can be conceived as made up of two independant but interconnected domains : micro-syntax and macro-syntax. The last chapter introduces some linguistic data, and allows us to formulate some hypothesis about the link existing between prosody and syntax : our view is that, in spontaneous spoken communication, prosodic structure seems to play a major role in signalling the macro-syntactic constituants. We present some data drawn from our corpus in order to illustrate our conception.
Abstract FR:
Cette these entend contribuer a la description linguistique du discours francais spontane, selon une double approche : prosodique et syntaxique. - dans le chapitre initial, nous rappelons comment les chercheurs en prosodie ont propose de situer les phenomenes suprasegmentaux parmi l'ensemble des faits relevant de "la langue parlee", et faisons le point sur differentes methodes de recueil et de transcription des donnees orales. - la seconde partie de ce travail est consacree a la description linguistique du francais parle. Il est tout d'abord question de prosodie. Nous evoquons certaines etudes qui visent a mettre en evidence le caractere formel de l'organisation suprasegmentale, et rappelons certains debats theoriques majeurs sur les relations entre forme sonore et signification. Enfin, nous presentons le modele hierarchique qui a ete elabore a aixen-provence par a. Di cristo et d. Hirst. Le second theme retenu dans le second chapitre concerne la syntaxe. Nous illustrons l'idee selon laquelle le domaine grammatical peut etre concu comme compose de deux plans independants mais inter-relies : la micro-syntaxe et la macro-syntaxe. - dans la troisieme partie de ce travail, nous presentons certaines donnees linguistiques, et formulons quelques hypotheses sur les relations entre prosodie et syntaxe : nous nous proposons de montrer que la forme prosodique assume un role essentiel de signalisation macro-syntaxique. Cette hypothese est etayee par le recours a des exemples tires de notre corpus.