Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics to the Memory of Pierre Delattre (Janua Linguarum. Series Maior)

## PIERRE DELATTRE he did not leave the application of his use of a variety of experimental techniques in phonetics to less skilled and less knowledgeable interpreters. Indeed, much of his time and energy during his mature period was devoted to the improvement of FL teaching. In the preface to Comparing the Phonetic Features of English, French, German and Spanish he states: It occurred to us that the same techniques as, for instance, that which was used at Haskins to study the acoustic correlates of speech perception could be applied to the study of foreign accents described in terms of phonetic features which distinguish one language from another. Thus the latest electronic techniques of speech analysis and our experience in artificial speech synthesis should serve a practical purpose -better teaching of foreign languages. Pierre Delattre was a generous and affable host and displayed a charming and sparkling Gallic wit that one would hardly suspect in someone with such austere antecedents, and colleagues from the humanities who knew of his strong attachment to music and literature had difficulty imagining him as the white-smocked scientist surrounded by complex machines. But Delattre was and considered himself a humanist and he had always been enchanted by the esthetic qualities of the principal object of his study, French sounds: French ... reveals a rich and varied system of vowels and consonants in which frontal resonance dominates, open syllables that are proud of their vowels, oxytonic accentuation that emphasizes the last syllables of sense groups not by heavy marks of intensity but by restrained increases in length, an intonation capable of contrasting the lightest shade of syntactic meaning, a rhythm of equal syllables which recalls a string of pearls ... (1966b:6). PREFATORY NOTE Pierre Delattre Publications of PIERRE DELATTRE Tonal Experiments with Whispered Thai Phonemics as a Discovery Procedure in Synchronic Dialectology The Syntax of parecer [ts] et [dz] en français canadien Some Observations on Méchant Poète vs. Poète Méchant Some Observations on the Pitch of Questions Pierre Delattre, Teacher of French De l’r gaulois à l’r français Analyse acoustique de deux allophones du l final anglais On Utterance-final [ł]] and [u] in Portuguese “ptk” et “bdg” français en position intervocalique accentuée French Listeners and the Tonic Accent Le Système accentuel du français Is ‘Middle French’ Necessary? L’Origine et l’évolution du mot gnôle “eau-de-vie”: la géographie linguistique et l’homonymie Vowel Overlap in Azerbaijani Phonemic Texts The Question-Phrase Fall-Rise in British English Entry Words: Grammars and Dictionaries Phonetic Prerequisites for a Distinctive Feature Theory Perception phonétique au seuil d’audition Some Observations Concerning the Third Tone in Latvian Étude de la prononciation de e accentué chez un groupe de jeunes parisiens In Search of the Acoustic Cues Stop Duration and Voicing in English New Procedures for Descriptive Phonetics The pan-European Suffix -esco, -esque in Stratigraphic Projection Une question de méthode et la solution d’un problème concret (esp. crecer- crezco) La nature phonologique d’e caduc Cinefluorographic Studies of Speech Articulation A Comparison of Spanish Single-tap /r/ with American /t/ and /d/ in Post-stress, Intervocalic Position Some Similarities in Old French and Modem Spanish Verb Morphology Developmental Aspects of Auditory Discrimination Sur la représentation par écrit des sons parlés Le Seuil différentiel de durée Sonocineradiography in Speech-Sound Analysis The Loi de Position as a Pedagogical Norm The Many Uses of Fo Linguistique générale et théorie de la linguistique

Stories do not actually exist in the (fictional or factual) world but are constituted, structured and endowed with meaning through the process of mediation, i.e. they are represented and transmitted through systems of verbal, visual or audio-visual signs. The terms usually proposed to describe aspects of mediation, especially perspective, point of view, and focalization, have yet to bring clarity to this field, which is of central importance, not only for narratology but also for literary and media studies. One crucial problem about mediation concerns the dimensions of its modeling effect, particularly the precise status and constellation of the mediating agents, i.e. author, narrator or presenter and characters. The question is how are the structure and the meaning of the story conditioned by these different positions in relation to the mediated happenings perceived from outside and/or inside the storyworld? In this volume, fourteen articles by international scholars from seven different countries address these problems anew from various angles, reviewing the sub-categorization of mediation and re-specifying its dimensions both in literary texts and other media such as drama and theater, film, and computer games.