Abstract
The relation between segmental timing variability and prosodic structure in Montreal French is investigated. Twenty-four minutes of data extracted from recordings of spontaneous conversations using a balanced corpus of eight speakers differentiated according to sex, age, and social class were measured on digital spectrograms. An auditory analysis was used to categorize the basic prosodic structure of the speech corpora. Four levels of prosodic organization were established: syllabic units, metrical feet, accentual groups, and intonational phrases. A linguistic analysis was used to determine the distribution of deleted vowels. This study investigates the role of two types of durational effects in utterances: local effects and global effects. The multiple layering of temporal effects is examined by means of a statistical analysis of syllable durational variability. It is shown how the distribution of vowel deletion follows from the interaction of effects in the temporal implementation of prosodic domains. [Work supported by SSHRCC.]
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