Initiating a discourse unit in spoken French: Prosodic and syntactic features of the left periphery

Degand, Liesbeth;Simon, Anne-Catherine;Tanguy, Noalig;Van Damme, Thomas
(2014) Discourse Segmentation in Romance Languages — 243-273, published

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This chapter presents an empirical study of the left periphery of Basic Discourse Units, viz. the linguistic segments that speakers and hearers use to interpret the discourse they are engaged in. A Basic Discourse Unit is bound by the mapping of a syntactic (dependency) structure and a major intonation unit, giving rise to different types of discourse units (congruent, syntax-bound, intonation-bound, regulatory). Focusing on the discourse units’ Left Peripheral Elements, which are again defined in syntactic and prosodic terms, we show that they fulfil different discourse structuring roles.
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Degand, L., Simon, A.-C., Tanguy, N., & Van Damme, T. (2014). Initiating a discourse unit in spoken French: Prosodic and syntactic features of the left periphery. In Salvador Pons Bordería (ed.), Discourse Segmentation in Romance Languages (pp. 243-273). John Benjamins. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/241774