Voice diversity in conversation : a case study

Roxane Bertrand (1) , Robert Espesser (1)

1 LPL - Laboratoire Parole et Langage

This paper's aim is to present prosody as a polyphonic marker through the analysis of Direct Reported Speech excerpts pronounced by a female speaker in everyday conversation. Our results reveal the existence of global melodic differences between the three types of discourse analysed, eg Direct Speech, Direct Reported Speech which contains self-quotations and Direct Reported Speech containing other virtual enunciators than the source speaker.

Mots clés: prosody; polyphony; direct reported speech; conversation

Domaines: Linguistique

Roxane Bertrand, Robert Espesser. Voice diversity in conversation : a case study. Speech Prosody, Apr 2002, Aix-en-Provence, France. pp.171-174. ⟨hal-00143125⟩