This paper presents a preliminary analysis of the role of some discourse markers and the vocalic hesitation euh in a corpus of spoken human utterances collected with the RITEL system, an open domain and spoken dialog system. The frequency and contextual combination patterns of classical discourse markers and of the vocalic hesitation has been studied. This analysis highlights some specificities...

Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) has been in constant research for a number of years. The different parts of a text are called text spans. RST helps in organizing these text spans. These text spans are connected with each other by Discourse markers. In this paper, we are exploring the possibility of realizing some RST relations (CONTRAST, SEQUENCE and PARALLEL) from multi-nuclear sentences in ...

Over the past decade, there has been an increasing interest in the study of interactional metadiscourse markers in different contexts. However, not much research has been conducted about the discourse of journal author guidelines, especially the use of meta-discourse markers in this genre. Therefore, this corpus-based study had three main aims: 1) to delve deep into the types, frequencies and f...

In this paper we show how text, context and prosody of discourse markers reflect cognitive and discourse phenomena of uncertainty and certainty, intensity of emotional response, and interactive signals of knowledge state. We demonstrate how the subtle and finely differentiated meanings permeating spontaneous speech are communicated by prosodic variations and that it is the differences in shape ...

Mandarin Chinese fluent speech prosody is characterized by a hierarchical multiple-phrase structure that specifies how speech paragraphs are constituted via Prosodic Phrase Grouping. Hence we view spoken discourse prosody as yet another higher node treats PGs (Prosodic Phrase Groups) as sister constituents. The goals of present study are two fold: one is to study how speech paragraphs are conne...

In this paper, we investigate focus markers in Catalan that can take on discourse-particle readings. We two elements have not been studied from a formal linguistics perspective so far: the adverb precisament ‘precisely’ and particle també ‘also’. demonstrate these feature interpretations identify as type of meaning familiar discourse particles languages other than Catalan. After having outlined...