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Processing Units in Conversation: A Comparative Study of French and Mandarin Data*

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Udgivet i:Language and Linguistics vol. 16, no. 1 (2015), p. 69-92
Hovedforfatter: Prévot, Laurent
Andre forfattere: Tseng, Shu-Chuan, Peshkov, Klim, Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien
Udgivet:
Academia Sinica, Institute of Linguistics
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MIT Press
Taiwan
Semantics
Syntax
Speech
Qualitative research
Discourse structure
Quantitative analysis
French language
Syntax semantics relationship
Syntactic processing
Language diversity
Space
Corpus analysis
Syntactic structures
Language typology
Mandarin
Spoken language
Form classes
Interpersonal communication
Segmentation
Prosodic units
Conversation
Comparative studies
Discourse
Data processing
Comparative analysis
Sequences
Data
Languages
Communication
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Resumen:Human spoken language production is directed towards communication delivering comprehensible information to recipients. Speech segmentation into small units efficiently enhances a sensible and interpretable discourse structure. Such processing units in real-life communication may be applied to semantic, syntactic, or prosodic structures. Previous studies have proposed various theories of speech segmentation, mainly based on qualitative analyses. The present study utilizes corpus-based quantitative data to examine how conversational speech in French and Mandarin is structured in terms of three different processing units, and how these units interact with one another. Unit completion location was identified by semantic structure (discourse unit), prosodic pattern (prosodic unit), and sequences of parts of speech (chunk). Quantitative analyses for both languages were carried out by applying comparable processing procedures. This article presents our efforts to establish a dataset for two typologically diverse languages, and to carry out quantitative comparative studies of processing units in face-to-face conversation.
ISSN:1606-822X
2309-5067
Fuente:Social Science Database