Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie is involved.
Articles
2019 Chapter 7. Intonation of alternative constructions in French: Which cues allow distinguishing statements from questions? Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 15: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 30, Frankfurt, Feldhausen, Ingo, Martin Elsig, Imme Kuchenbrandt and Mareike Neuhaus (eds.), pp. 135–156 | Chapter
Alternative questions in French are described as ending by a falling contour, while a rising contour occurs on the non-final conjuncts. This configuration is very similar to the one observed in statements with a disjunction. The similarity at the phonological level raises the following questions:… read more
2007 Metrical structure, tonal association and focus in French Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2005: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Utrecht, 8–10 December 2005, Baauw, Sergio, Frank Drijkoningen and Manuela Pinto (eds.), pp. 73–98 | Article
The main purpose of this paper is to show that focus is a pivot in tune-text association, which plays a central role for the anchoring of intonational tones. This paper also presents the main characteristics of the French prosodic system. The first section provides an overview of French metrical… read more