Many studies seem to confirm that reported speech is marked prosodically by perceptive variables such as pitch variation, pause duration, speech rate, higher pitch range, etc. However, analyzed data extracted from the ORFEO and OFROM data sets, which bring together various corpora of spontaneous speech in French with various styles and geographic origins, show that if monologs are often characterized by a pause introducing the reported segments, it is not at all the case for informal dialogs, where introducing segments are mostly located at the beginning or in the middle of the sentence and integrated in the overall sentence prosodic structure. The presence of a pause in monologs to signal the occurrence of a reported speech segment in a sentence reflects a “written language bias” linked to the presence of quoting marks in written representations of reported speech.