In search of basic units of spoken language : a corpus-driven approach / edited by Shlomo Izre'el, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi, Tommaso Raso.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Izre'el, Shlomo, editor.

Mello, Heliana, editor.

Panunzi, Alessandro, editor.

Raso, Tommaso, editor.

Series:

Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 94.

Studies in corpus linguistics (SCL), 1388-0373 ; volume 94

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colloquial language.

Extemporaneous speaking.

Speech acts (Linguistics).

Phonetics.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Discourse analysis.

Corpora (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

ix, 440 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

Summary:

"What is the best way to analyze spontaneous spoken language? In their search for the basic units of spoken language the authors of this volume opt for a corpus-driven approach. They share a strong conviction that prosodic structure is essential for the study of spoken discourse and each bring their own theoretical and practical experience to the table. In the first part of the book they segment spoken material from a range of different languages (Russian, Hebrew, Central Pomo (an indigenous language from California), French, Japanese, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese). In the second part of the book each author analyzes the same two spoken English samples, but looking at them from different perspectives, using different methods of analysis as reflected in their respective analyses in Part I. This approach allows for common tendencies of segmentation to emerge, both prosodic and segmental"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Part I

ch. 1 Russian spoken discourse: Local structure and prosody / Vera I. Podlesskaya

ch. 2 The basic unit of spoken language and the interfaces between prosody, discourse and syntax: A view from spontaneous spoken Hebrew / Shlomo Izre'el

ch. 3 Prosody and the organization of information in Central Porno, a California indigenous language / Marianne Mithun

ch. 4 Syntactic and prosodic segmentation in spoken French / Philippe Martin

ch. 5 Design and annotation of two-level utterance units in Japanese / Hanae Koiso

ch. 6 The pragmatic analysis of speech and its illocutionary classification according to the Language into Act Theory / Emanuela Cresti

ch. 7 Illocution as a unit of reference for spontaneous speech: An account of insubordinated adverbial clauses in Brazilian Portuguese / Tommaso Raso

ch. 8 Narrative discourse segmentation in clinical linguistics / Mariya V. Khudyakova

ch. 9 Cross-linguistic comparison of automatic detection of speech breaks in read and narrated speech in four languages / Plinio A. Barbosa

Part II

Same texts, different approaches to segmentation: An introduction to the second part of the volume / Tommaso Raso

ch. 1 Segmentation and analysis of the two English excerpts: The Brazilian team proposal / Maryuale M. Mittmann

ch. 2 Analysis of two English spontaneous speech examples with the dependency incremental prosodic structure model / Philippe Martin

ch. 3 Applying criteria of spontaneous Hebrew speech segmentation to English / Shlomo Izre'el

ch. 4 Basic units of speech segmentation / Marianne Mithun

ch. 5 Segmentation of the English texts Navy and Hearts with SUU and LUU / Takehiko Maruyama

ch. 6 The Moscow approach to local discourse structure: An application to English / Vera I. Podlesskaya

ch. 7 Some notes on the Hearts and Navy excerpts according to the Language into Act Theory / Massimo Moneglia

ch. 8 Comparing annotations for the prosodic segmentation of spontaneous speech: Focus on reference units / Bruno Rocha.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: In search of basic units of spoken language

ISBN:

9789027204974

9027204977

OCLC:

1133125789