Identification of Southern French accent based on suprasegmental elements

Annelise Coquillon (1)

1 LPL - Laboratoire Parole et Langage

This work focuses on the identification of two different varieties of French on the basis of suprasegmental elements. More precisely, we will show that a perceptual discrimination between Southern French (spoken in the Marseilles area) and a more neutral French (which can be assimilated to standard French) is possible using prosodic cues alone. For this, we used a low-pass filter adapted to each speaker. As these results show the importance of the suprasegmental elements of Marseilles French, we investigated a preliminary research of the prosodic parameters of the corpus. This first investigation enabled us to draw certain trends of this regional accent which will further be discussed.

Mots clés: Marseille French; regional identification; low-pass filter

Mots clés: français de la région marseillaise; identification régionale; filtre passe-bas

Domaines: Linguistique

Annelise Coquillon. Identification of Southern French accent based on suprasegmental elements. 2003, pp.587-590. ⟨hal-00135432⟩