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    • Phonetics
    • Linguistics
    • Sociolinguistics

    Background:

    • Speaker commitment can be encoded through pitch accent types across languages.
    • Prior research on pitch accents and speaker commitment primarily focused on lexical-stress languages.
    • Limited understanding exists regarding how non-lexical-stress languages, like French, encode speaker commitment.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the role of the final pitch accent in French intonation phrases for conveying speaker commitment.
    • To analyze how French speakers signal their belief about the certainty of a proposition using pitch accent.
    • To contribute to the understanding of pitch accent functions in non-lexical-stress languages.

    Main Methods:

    • A production experiment involving French speakers.
    • Participants produced sentences in two distinct pragmatic contexts: unbiased and negatively biased questions.
    • Analysis of pitch accent types (H+!H* and H*) and F0 contours in relation to speaker commitment.

    Main Results:

    • Negatively biased questions consistently featured an H+!H* pitch accent, characterized by an additional unaccented F0 peak.
    • Unbiased questions were frequently produced with an H* pitch accent, exhibiting a rising pattern across the accented syllable.
    • Distinct pitch accent patterns were observed correlating with different levels of speaker certainty.

    Conclusions:

    • Pitch accent types in French serve to signal a speaker's belief regarding the certainty of a proposition.
    • The findings provide evidence for the phonological encoding of speaker commitment in French.
    • This research expands the understanding of pitch accent functions in non-lexical-stress languages and French intonation.