Discourse markers and turn-planning at the pragmatics–prosody interface: The case of allora in spoken Italian

In recent research on discourse markers (DMs), it has been shown that these elements collaborate with prosody to convey crucial information about the organization of discourse, both at level a single turn and overall conversation. this article, we analyze DM allora ‘then’, occurring in turn-initial position followed by silent pause spontaneous monolingual dialogues between Italian native speakers. Various prosodic measures are taken comparing following intonational phrase (IP), investigate discursive relationship rest turn. The results show is peripheric as opposed general turn’s planning: produced higher articulation rate narrower range pitch values than IP, reset visible two. data suggest IP constitute two distinct units planning. We argue much speakers manipulate their recursive side utterance syntactic dependencies, they produce or lower onset, express discursive-pragmatics relations intonation units.