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Andrews, Barry J. – IRAL, 1989
A study examines the way in which one group of discourse connectors, terminators, function in contemporary spoken French. Three types of terminators, elements used at the end of an utterance or section to indicate its completion, are investigated, including utterance terminators, interrogative tags, and terminal tags. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, French, Language Patterns
Temple, Rosalind A. M. – York Papers in Linguistics, 1996
A study investigated the realization of voicing contrasts ("breathiness") in plosive consonants produced by young French adults, particularly as they differ in males and females. Data came from acoustic analysis of recordings of nine informants reading lists of monosyllabic words with initial plosive consonants in isolation and in the content,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Comparative Analysis, Consonants, Foreign Countries