A production study examined the structure of French intonational rises. Prosodic phrases with a two-rise pattern (LHLH) were most common. Phrase length, expressed either in number of syllables or in clock time, was the best predictor of the realization of the two-rise pattern. Several other patterns were observed, including one not reported in the literature. I argue, following [1], that the early and late rises are structurally different: the LH of the late rise is a bitonal pitch accent, while the the LH of the early rise is a bitonal phrase accent. I revise my account ([2]) of the association of the L of this phrase accent.

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Welby, P., 2002. The realization of early and late rises in French: a production study. In B. Bel and I. Marlien, editors, Proc. Speech Prosody 2002, 695-698, Aix-en-Provence.

@inproceedings{welby04_speechprosody,
  title     = {The structure of French intonational rises: a study of text-to-tune alignment},
  author    = {Pauline Welby},
  year      = {2004},
  booktitle = {Speech Prosody 2004},
  pages     = {127--130},
  doi       = {10.21437/SpeechProsody.2004-30},
  issn      = {2333-2042},
}