Speech Prosody, the Missing Link
摘要
As a native speaker of English who has been living and working in France for the last 50 years, I often wonder what I could answer, if asked to summarise what I actually know today about the prosodic differences between the French and English languages, two languages which I obviously know rather well. I could certainly give a talk or write an essay on the subject, but how many of the differences which I might describe could be called established facts?