{"title":"Pragmatic effects on the sentence-final intonation of answered wh-in-situ questions in French","authors":"Janina Reinhardt, Wiebke Matuschat-Petersen","doi":"10.1017/s0959269523000315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959269523000315","url":null,"abstract":"The final intonation in French wh-in-situ questions is subject to much debate. Although a wide variety of final pitch movements has been observed, recent studies generally agree on a tendency for final rises. In our study, we analysed the answered wh-in-situ questions (e.g. <jats:italic>Tu veux savoir quoi ? – Tout !</jats:italic> ‘What do you want to know? – Everything!’) in a corpus of eleven audio books. For our analysis, we used perceptual classifications by three annotators. Annotations included not only the perception of final intonational movement (‘rise’/‘fall’/‘plateau’), but also string-related (wh-lexeme; ‘wh-word final’/‘wh-word non-final’) and pragmatic (‘information-seeking’/‘non-information-seeking’; ‘hierarchical’/‘non-hierarchical’) features. Our results show that a) even string-identical wh-in-situ questions can be pronounced with rises as well as falls and b) pragmatics affect the final pitch movement. If the speaker is hierarchically superior to the hearer, rises are less likely, and questions that are answered by the same speaker are even associated with a non-rising default. However, our data also suggest that pragmatic functions cannot be directly mapped to pitch movement. Information-seeking questions can be pronounced with all three final intonations and speakers may even choose opposite patterns for the same interrogative in the same context.","PeriodicalId":43930,"journal":{"name":"Journal of French Language Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139955340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zooming in on the semantics of French ingressives: a collostructional analysis","authors":"Filip Verroens","doi":"10.1017/s0959269524000012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959269524000012","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the semantic value of the infinitive in the ingressive constructions <jats:italic>se mettre à</jats:italic> (SMA) and <jats:italic>commencer à</jats:italic> (COMA) using a distinctive collexeme analysis. We find that the collexemes significant for the construction SMA are fairly homogeneous across the different corpora and can be grouped into the general category of expressive collexemes. The collexemes significant for COMA are more heterogeneous and belong to the category of cognitive collexemes and to semantic fields of sensory and creative acts. The results are compatible with the hypothesis put forward by Verroens and De Cuypere (2023) stating that the overall meaning of the SMA construction is intrinsically punctual. The punctual value of SMA is not only compatible with expressive collexemes, but, moreover, emphasizes their unforeseen and unintentional meaning. Conversely, the incremental value of COMA is consistent with the gradual onset of cognitive and sensory collexemes.","PeriodicalId":43930,"journal":{"name":"Journal of French Language Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139955346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Encyclopédie grammaticale du français (EGF), en ligne sur http://encyclogram.fr/ (consulté en novembre 2023).","authors":"Sonia Vaupot","doi":"10.1017/s0959269523000297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959269523000297","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43930,"journal":{"name":"Journal of French Language Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139774574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Encyclopédie grammaticale du français (EGF), en ligne sur http://encyclogram.fr/ (consulté en novembre 2023).","authors":"Sonia Vaupot","doi":"10.1017/s0959269523000297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959269523000297","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43930,"journal":{"name":"Journal of French Language Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139834075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"William J. Ashby On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader (edited and translated by Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber ). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2023. xiv + 548 pp. ISBN: 978 90 272 1289 4 (hardcover).","authors":"Aidan Coveney","doi":"10.1017/s0959269523000248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959269523000248","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43930,"journal":{"name":"Journal of French Language Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139834446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"William J. Ashby On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader (edited and translated by Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber ). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2023. xiv + 548 pp. ISBN: 978 90 272 1289 4 (hardcover).","authors":"Aidan Coveney","doi":"10.1017/s0959269523000248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959269523000248","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43930,"journal":{"name":"Journal of French Language Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139774722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The rolling snowball: lone English-origin lexical items in Guernésiais","authors":"Mari C. Jones","doi":"10.1017/s0959269523000261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959269523000261","url":null,"abstract":"Long-term contact with English has led to the presence in Guernésiais of a considerable number of lone English-origin lexical items (Jones, 2015). Although the presence of such items was being noted as far back as the nineteenth century, this is the first study to analyse and document them systematically. Using extensive original data, it examines these lexical items in relation to each part of speech and discusses their use in Guernésiais in the broader context of language contact. The study also considers whether, and how, lone English-origin lexical items become assimilated phonologically and morphosyntactically and whether frequency and motivation have a bearing on their usage.","PeriodicalId":43930,"journal":{"name":"Journal of French Language Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139056046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contextual dilution in French gender inclusive writing: An experimental investigation","authors":"Céline Pozniak, Emma Corbeau, Heather Burnett","doi":"10.1017/s0959269523000236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959269523000236","url":null,"abstract":"Gender inclusive writing, a term that refers to a wide range of feminist linguistic practices aimed at reducing linguistic androcentrism, has been the topic of heated debates in France. Recent experimental studies have investigated its interpretation and showed that inclusive forms with the point médian (“étudiant·e·s”) and repetition (“étudiants et étudiantes”) feminize participants’ mental representations compared to the generic masculine (“étudiants”). In this article, we bring novel results from three experiments investigating the interpretation of these two inclusive forms in a more detailed context (university brochures). We find that the point médian is subject to “context dilution” effects: its meaning disappears in rich contexts, while repetition consistently changes readers’ mental representations, provided it is used systematically. We argue that our results show the necessity of looking at more ecological contexts in experimental (socio)linguistics for understanding the interpretation and processing of socially important linguistic variants.","PeriodicalId":43930,"journal":{"name":"Journal of French Language Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138518485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}