La liaison dans la parole spontanée familière : explorations semi-automatiques de grands corpus (French Liaison in casual speech : automatic and manual investigations) [in French]
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French Liaison in casual speech : automatic and manual investigations The realisation of the French Liaison is investigated in a large corpus of casual speech. Consi- dering that casual speech gives rise to a large range of pronunciation variants and that overall temporal reduction increases (word and phone duration measurements) as compared to read and prepared speech, one may hypothesize that French liaison tends to be less productive in this kind of speaking style. We made use of automatic speech alignments to evaluate optional liaison realisations in potential liaison sites (word ending in a liaison consonant followed by a word-initial (semi)-vowel). Speech comes from the NCCFr corpus including 46 mostly young speakers with a total of more than 30 hours of speech. Realized liaisons were examined and mea- sured for the most frequent liaison consonants (/z/, /n/ and /t/) as a function of a classification of the sites as mandatory, optional or forbidden with respect to liaison realization. An original contribution investigates liaison realization as a function of a speaker-dependent speech rate measure. MOTS-CLÉS : Variantes de prononciation, liaison, parole familière, réduction temporelle. KEYWORDS: Pronunciation variants, liaison, French, casual speech, temporal reduction. 545 1
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Actes de la conférence conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2012, volume 1: JEP, pages 545–552, Grenoble, 4 au 8 juin 2012. c ⃝2012 ATALA & AFCP La liaison dans la parole spontanée familière: explorations semi-automatiques de grands corpus Martine Adda-Decker1, 2, Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie3, Cécile Fougeron1 Cédric Gendrot1, Lori Lamel2. (1) LPP, UMR 7018, 19, rue des Bernardins 75005 Paris (2) LIMSI, UPR 3251, bât. 508, rue John von Neumann, 91403, Orsay (3) LLF, UMR 7110 : 175 rue du Chevaleret, 75013, Paris {madda,cfougeron,cgendrot}@univ-paris3.fr, {madda,lamel}@limsi.fr, elisabeth.delais@linguist.jussieu.fr RÉSUMÉ Ce travail explore la réalisation des liaisons dans un parler spontané familier. En partant du constat que dans la parole familière les prononciations s’écartent souvent de leur forme canonique complète, et que l’on peut observer un taux de réduction temporelle plus élevé qu’en parole lue ou préparée, nous faisons l’hypothèse que le nombre de liaisons réalisées se trouve diminué dans ce type de parole. Nous mesurons les taux de réalisation des liaisons à l’aide d’alignements automatiques où nous proposons qu’une consonne de liaison peut apparaître devant un mot commençant par (semi)-voyelle. Le corpus utilisé est le corpus NCCFr (Nijmegen Corpus of Casual French) qui comprend 46 locuteurs (jeunes) et plus de 30 heures de parole. Les taux de réalisation sont mesurés pour les consonnes de liaison les plus fréquentes (/z/, /n/ et /t/) et dans des sites de liaison potentielle classés selon que la liaison y est obligatoire, facultative ou interdite. Nous proposons également une étude originale des taux de réalisation des liaisons en fonction d’une mesure de débit de parole et en fonction du locuteur. ABSTRACT French Liaison in casual speech : automatic and manual investigations The realisation of the French Liaison is investigated in a large corpus of casual speech. Consi- dering that casual speech gives rise to a large range of pronunciation variants and that overall temporal reduction increases (word and phone duration measurements) as compared to read and prepared speech, one may hypothesize that French liaison tends to be less productive in this kind of speaking style. We made use of automatic speech alignments to evaluate optional liaison realisations in potential liaison sites (word ending in a liaison consonant followed by a word-initial (semi)-vowel). Speech comes from the NCCFr corpus including 46 mostly young speakers with a total of more than 30 hours of speech. Realized liaisons were examined and mea- sured for the most frequent liaison consonants (/z/, /n/ and /t/) as a function of a classification of the sites as mandatory, optional or forbidden with respect to liaison realization. An original contribution investigates liaison realization as a function of a speaker-dependent speech rate measure. MOTS-CLÉS : Variantes de prononciation, liaison, parole familière, réduction temporelle. KEYWORDS: Pronunciation variants, liaison, French, casual speech, temporal reduction. 545 1 Introduction La liaison consiste en la réalisation d’une consonne finale normalement muette (suite à des changements linguistiques entre les 12ème et 16ème siècles) appartenant orthographiquement au mot (M1) devant un mot (M2) commençant par une voyelle (ou, dans quelques cas, une semi-voyelle). La liaison a été …
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French Liaison in casual speech : automatic and manual investigations The realisation of the French Liaison is investigated in a large corpus of casual speech. Considering that casual speech gives rise to a large range of pronunciation variants and that overall temporal reduction increases (word and phone duration measurements) as compared to read and prepared speech, one may hypothesize that French liaison tends to be less productive in this kind of speaking style. We made use of automatic speech alignments to evaluate optional liaison realisations in potential liaison sites (word ending in a liaison consonant followed by a word-initial (semi)-vowel). Speech comes from the NCCFr corpus including 46 mostly young speakers with a total of more than 30 hours of speech. Realized liaisons were examined and measured for the most frequent liaison consonants (/z/, /n/ and /t/) as a function of a classification of the sites as mandatory, optional or forbidden with respect to liaison realization. An original contribution investigates liaison realization as a function of a speaker-dependent speech rate measure. MOTS-CLÉS : Variantes de prononciation, liaison, parole familière, réduction temporelle. KEYWORDS: Pronunciation variants, liaison, French, casual speech, temporal reduction. 545 1
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- Paper ID:
- 1805
- Year:
- 2012
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- TIPSTER
- Publication Type:
- conf
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- nan