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This dissertation studies the relationship between the expression of controlled aggressive attitudes and the perception of dominance, based on extracts from televised sessions of the Municipal Council of Montreuil during 2013; a period marked by a lively and hostile political climate. We constituted a corpus of spontaneous speech extracts from the Mayor, Dominique Voynet, and four of her opponents. During subsequent recording sessions, the five speakers were asked to read transcriptions of their own speech extracts in a neutral tone (25 stimuli per speaker). They also participated in a self-evaluation questionnaire that focused on the perception of emotional profiles in their own stimuli. The results of the speakers' perceptive evaluations were compared to those of a control group of naïve listeners. All speakers were perceived as slightly hostile, discontent and dominant, despite the variability observed in the self-evaluated profiles. The original and re-read extracts were compared in their prosodic- syntactic structure as well as their temporal and melodic characteristics. We show that: 1) some speakers seem to rely mostly on melodic parameters whereas others primarily use temporal parameters, 2) nevertheless, general trends emerge regarding the speech correlates of hostility and dominance in our corpus, notably: a) discrepancies between the syntactic and the prosodic structure of the extracts, b) reduction or absence of pre-pausal final syllabic lengthening, c) large variations in F0 range on both sides of silent pauses. ; Cette thèse étudie les rapports entre l'expression d'attitudes agressives contrôlées et la perception de la dominance, à partir d'extraits de séances télévisées du conseil Municipal de Montreuil (93100) durant l'année 2013, période marquée par un climat politique vif et hostile. Un corpus a été constitué à partir d'extraits de parole spontanée de la Maire, Dominique Voynet, et de quatre de ses opposants. Les cinq locuteurs ont participé à l'enregistrement d'une relecture neutre du corpus de leurs propres extraits de parole (25 stimuli par locuteur) ainsi qu'à l'auto-évaluation perceptive de leurs stimuli (profils émotionnels), dont les résultats ont été comparés à l'évaluation perceptive des extraits par des auditeurs naïfs. Tous les locuteurs ont été perçus comme légèrement hostiles, légèrement mécontents et légèrement dominants malgré des profils émotionnels auto-évalués variables. Les extraits originaux et relus ont été comparés au niveau de leur structuration prosodico-syntaxique et de leurs caractéristiques temporelles et mélodiques. Les résultats montrent que 1) certains locuteurs semblent plus s'appuyer sur des paramètres mélodiques et d'autres sur des paramètres temporels ; 2) on peut néanmoins dégager les tendances générales concernant les corrélats dans la parole de l'hostilité et de la dominance dans notre corpus : a) des écarts entre structuration syntaxique et prosodique des extraits, b) la réduction ou l'absence d'allongements syllabiques finaux pré-pausaux, c) de fortes variations de plage de variation de F0 de part et d'autre des pauses silencieuses.

This dissertation studies the relationship between the expression of controlled aggressive attitudes and the perception of dominance, based on extracts from televised sessions of the Municipal Council of Montreuil during 2013; a period marked by a lively and hostile political climate. We constituted a corpus of spontaneous speech extracts from the Mayor, Dominique Voynet, and four of her opponents. During subsequent recording sessions, the five speakers were asked to read transcriptions of their own speech extracts in a neutral tone (25 stimuli per speaker). They also participated in a self-evaluation questionnaire that focused on the perception of emotional profiles in their own stimuli. The results of the speakers' perceptive evaluations were compared to those of a control group of naïve listeners. All speakers were perceived as slightly hostile, discontent and dominant, despite the variability observed in the self-evaluated profiles. The original and re-read extracts were compared in their prosodic- syntactic structure as well as their temporal and melodic characteristics. We show that: 1) some speakers seem to rely mostly on melodic parameters whereas others primarily use temporal parameters, 2) nevertheless, general trends emerge regarding the speech correlates of hostility and dominance in our corpus, notably: a) discrepancies between the syntactic and the prosodic structure of the extracts, b) reduction or absence of pre-pausal final syllabic lengthening, c) large variations in F0 range on both sides of silent pauses. ; Cette thèse étudie les rapports entre l'expression d'attitudes agressives contrôlées et la perception de la dominance, à partir d'extraits de séances télévisées du conseil Municipal de Montreuil (93100) durant l'année 2013, période marquée par un climat politique vif et hostile. Un corpus a été constitué à partir d'extraits de parole spontanée de la Maire, Dominique Voynet, et de quatre de ses opposants. Les cinq locuteurs ont participé à l'enregistrement d'une ...

International audience ; This study investigates the relationship between perceived hostility and speech timing features within extracts from Montreuil's City Council sessions in 2013, marked by a tense political context at this time. A dataset of 118 speech extracts from the mayor (Dominique Voynet) and four of her political opponents during the City Council has been analyzed through the combination of perception tests and speech timing phenomena, estimated from classical timing-related measurements and custom metrics. We also develop a methodological framework for the phonetic analysis of non-scripted speech: a double perceptive evaluation of the original dataset (22 participants) allowed us to measure the difference of hostility perceived (dHost) between the original audio extracts and their read transcriptions, and the five speakers produced the same utterances in a controlled reading task to make the direct comparison with original extracts possible. Correlations between dHost and speech timing features differences between each original utterance and its control counterpart show that perceived hostility is mainly influenced by local deviations to the expected accentuation pattern in French combined with the insertion of silent pauses. Moreover, a finer-grained analysis of rhythmic features reveals different strategies amongst speakers, especially regarding the realization of interpausal speech rate variation and final syllables lengthening.

International audience ; This study investigates the relationship between perceived hostility and speech timing features within extracts from Montreuil's City Council sessions in 2013, marked by a tense political context at this time. A dataset of 118 speech extracts from the mayor (Dominique Voynet) and four of her political opponents during the City Council has been analyzed through the combination of perception tests and speech timing phenomena, estimated from classical timing-related measurements and custom metrics. We also develop a methodological framework for the phonetic analysis of non-scripted speech: a double perceptive evaluation of the original dataset (22 participants) allowed us to measure the difference of hostility perceived (dHost) between the original audio extracts and their read transcriptions, and the five speakers produced the same utterances in a controlled reading task to make the direct comparison with original extracts possible. Correlations between dHost and speech timing features differences between each original utterance and its control counterpart show that perceived hostility is mainly influenced by local deviations to the expected accentuation pattern in French combined with the insertion of silent pauses. Moreover, a finer-grained analysis of rhythmic features reveals different strategies amongst speakers, especially regarding the realization of interpausal speech rate variation and final syllables lengthening.