La parataxe en akyé : étude syntaxique et sémantique à partir des faits prosodiques
Parataxe in akyé: syntactic and semantic study from prosodic facts

Summary/Abstract: This article analyzes the prosodic behavior of akye paratactic constructions in order to check whether prosody can be a criterion to identify these kinds of constructions. Clearly, we determine formal criteria to recognize paratactic constructions in akye. Using the Praat software, we analyze the prosodic contours of these utterances, which helped us to apprehend some regularity in terms of prosodic boundaries. Akye, for information, is a tonal language and tones are likely to influence the intonation curve. This study has also highlighted the difficulty to determine the relations existing between speech clauses by considering only the prosodic structure of an utterance.

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