Predicting topic in conversation: A study of turn initial discourse markers in Spanish
(2022) 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea [SLE 2022] — Location: Bucharest, Rumania (23.August.2022)
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- Discourse markers (DMs) have been described as part of the linguistic resources that speakers turn to in order to manage topicality in interaction (e.g., Fraser 1990, Pons Bordería & Estellés Arguedas 2009, Ionescu 2020). Yet, experimental work focusing on their predictive power in this phenomenon remains more limited. The aim of this study is to find out whether speakers can predict topic shift based on discourse markers. To do so, a combination of corpus work and experimental methods is proposed for three DM configurations in Spanish: single “y” (‘and’), perceived lengthened “y” and combined “bueno y” (‘well and’). We hypothesize that topic continuity will be managed by “y” alone, while topic discontinuity will be marked by a combination of cues: DM+ prosody (lengthened “y”) or DM+DM (“bueno y”).
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Villalobos Cardozo, M., Crible, L., & Degand, E. (2022). Predicting topic in conversation: A study of turn initial discourse markers in Spanish. 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea [SLE 2022], Bucharest, Rumania. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/242800