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A partir des outils de la recherche comme le logiciel de traitement de la parole PRAAT, le logiciel d'annotation automatique SPPAS et le corpus d'apprenants AixOx, cet article propose quelques exemples d'applications pédagogiques possibles pour l'aide à l'apprentissage / enseignement de phénomènes prosodiques de l'anglais pour des apprenants francophones en collèges et lycées. La théorie sous-jacente est celle de l'approche britannique et les illustrations concernent les 3 types de décision que le locuteur doit prendre, à savoir la division en unités intonatives, le placement des proéminences et les mouvements mélodiques. Cet article défend l'idée que la visualisation et la comparaison de productions de natifs et d'apprenants peuvent aider à mieux comprendre et donc mieux appréhender la prosodie de l'anglais L2.

In this paper, we study the intonational patterns observed in learners' productions in order to evaluate what motivates the deviations observed: systemic differences between the learners' L1 and the L2, differences in phonetic implementation, etc. The analysis consists of a crosscomparison of the intonation of yes-no questions in French, English and English as an L2. It is based on five informationseeking yes-no questions that were extracted from the AixOx corpus, which contains a set of 40 texts that were read by 10 native French speakers, 10 Native English speakers and 20 French learners of English. The analysis of the data showed that the differences between native and non-native speakers do not affect the form of the nuclear contour. It mostly shows that French speakers of English have a tendency to assign a rising pitch movement at the end of any prosodic words, which leads to a clear difference in rhythm.

Éditeur Cercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest-CerLICO Référence électronique Sophie Herment, « Emphase prosodique et emphase syntaxique : le cas de « do » dans un corpus de parole naturelle. »,

This paper focuses on rising contours in English read speech. Our hypothesis is that they are very few in this particular speech style. This is confirmed by quantitative and qualitative analyses, conducted on a corpus of read speech by native English speakers with a standard British English accent. The main result of the quantitative analyses is that out of 1076 tone units, 82% (whether final or not) are uttered with a falling contour, which is much more than could be expected. The qualitative analyses consisted in a thorough examination of the intonation contours in relation with the syntactic characteristics of our data, as well as an analysis of the pragmatic functions of the contours. They allow us to revisit the generally accepted idea that falling contours are associated with final statements and rises with yes-no questions and continuation. We show that the tonal sequence fall plus fall is by far the most common in read speech, whatever the syntactic structure, except for enumerations. Contrary to what is stated in the literature, the main function of rising contours is not to indicate non-finality and continuation, but rather to convey attitudes, at least in read speech.