Towards a Model for Discourse Marker Annotation in spoken French: From potential to feature-based discourse markers

Bolly, Catherine;Crible, Ludivine;Degand, Elisabeth;Uygur, Deniz
(2017) Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: What do we Know and Where do we Go from Here? — 73-99, published

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  • Bolly, CatherineUCLouvain
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  • Crible, LudivineUCLouvain
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  • Degand, ElisabethUCLouvain
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  • Uygur, DenizUCLouvain
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This chapter presents an empirical method for the identification and annotation of DMs in spontaneous spoken French ([present] project). Central to the proposal is that DMs may be described as clusters of features that, in specific patterns of combination, allow distinguishing DM use from other linguistic items fulfilling a non-propositional function, such as modal particles or pragmatic markers. The hypothesis underlying the annotation experiment is that the analysis of the distributional constraints imposed on specific markers should uncover reliable features for the identification and categorization of DMs. Multivariate statistics suggest a certain hierarchy between the different features under scrutiny, regarding their relevance and reliability, in the process of identifying DMs in context.
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Bolly, C., Crible, L., Degand, E., & Uygur, D. (2017). Towards a Model for Discourse Marker Annotation in spoken French: From potential to feature-based discourse markers. In Andrea Sanso, Chiara Fedriani (ed.), Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: What do we Know and Where do we Go from Here? (pp. 73-99). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/241746