Prominence perception and accent detection in French: from phonetic processing to grammatical analysis

In the area of large speech corpora, there is a demonstrated need for a common prosodic notation system that would allow easy data exchange, comparison of annotations and analyses, and automatic processing. A single, simple scheme of prosodic transcription could also form the basis of guidelines for non-expert manual annotation, and be used for linguistic teaching and research. We present a corpus-based apporach for prominence labeling in French continuous speech, taking into account the effects of grammatical constraints on prominences perception.