Prosodic Transfer in Contact Varieties: Vocative Calls in Metropolitan and Basaá-Cameroonian French

Prosodic Transfer in Contact Varieties: Vocative Calls in Metropolitan and Basaá-Cameroonian French

This paper examines the production of vocative calls in (Northern) Metropolitan French (MF) and Cameroonian French (CF) as it is spoken by native speakers of a tone language, Basaá. While the results of our Discourse Completion Task confirm previous descriptions of MF, they also further our understa...

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Main Authors: Fatima Hamlaoui, Marzena Żygis, Jonas Engelmann, Sergio I. Quiroz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-11-01
Series:Languages
Subjects:
vocative calls
intonation
lexical tones
contact variety
prosodic transfer
French
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/7/4/285

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