Modeling of a rise-fall intonation pattern in the language of young Paris speakers

Abstract

Intonation seems to be one of the major cues for identifying youth language in the Paris region. As part of a large-scale corpus-based analysis, this paper attempts to model a rise-fall prosodic pattern, considered to be representative of a Paris working-class suburbs accent. Comparison with the emphatic rise-fall prosodic pattern, well-known in general French, will provide the opportunity for sociolinguistic insights. The ethnic hypothesis is dismissed in favor of a context-bound and interaction sensitive interpretation.

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