Abstract
In this study, we investigated syllabic stress in theatrical speech containing emphatically stressed vowels. Typical acoustic correlates of stress are intensity, pitch, and duration. The aim of this experiment was to measure whether artistic emphatic stress is realized differently in terms of these correlates compared to stress in normal speech. In an experiment, one professional performer of Composed Theater, an avant-garde type of experimental theater, was recorded both in natural and theatrical French speech. The results showed an increase in mean intensity, pitch, and mean duration in highly stressed vowels. The difference between stressed and unstressed syllables was higher in theatrical, than in normal speech. We argue that duration, pitch and intensity were used to different degrees to indicate stress in the artistic speech sample. Our study provided a preliminary comparison of speech characteristics between artistic and normal speech focusing on stress realization techniques in artistic speech performance. Additional professional speakers' recordings are currently being analyzed in terms of prosodic characteristics in avant-garde theater performance.
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