Prosodic cues of sarcastic speech in French: Slower, higher, wider

Hélène Loevenbruck; Mohamed Ameur Ben Jannet; Mariapaola D'Imperio; Mathilde Spini; Maud Champagne-Lavau

Prosodic cues of sarcastic speech in French: Slower, higher, wider

Hélène Loevenbruck, Mohamed Ameur Ben Jannet, Mariapaola D'Imperio, Mathilde Spini, Maud Champagne-Lavau

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Abstract

Verbal irony is characterized by the use of specific acoustic modulations, especially global prosodic cues as well as vowel hyperarticulation. Little is known concerning the expression of sarcastic speech in French. Here we report on global prosodic features of sarcastic speech in a corpus of declarative French utterances. Our data show that sarcastic productions are characterized by utterance lengthening, by increased f₀ modulations and a global raising of the pitch level and range. The results are discussed in the light of results on the acoustic features of ironic speech in languages other than French.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	3537-3541
Number of pages	5
Journal	Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
State	Published - 2013
Externally published	Yes
Event	14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2013 - Lyon, France Duration: Aug 25 2013 → Aug 29 2013

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Language and Linguistics
Human-Computer Interaction
Signal Processing
Software
Modeling and Simulation

Keywords

French
Intonation
Prosody
Sarcastic speech

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Prosodic cues of sarcastic speech in French: Slower, higher, wider

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