Filled pauses as markers of discourse structure
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Filled pauses as markers of discourse structure
This study aims to test quantitatively whether lled pauses (FPs) may highlight discourse structure. More speci cally, it is rst investigated whether FPs are more typical in the vicinity of major discourse boundaries. Secondly, the FPs are analyzed acoustically, to check whether those occurring at major discourse boundaries are segmentally and prosodically di erent from those at shallower breaks...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pragmatics
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0378-2166
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-2166(98)00014-9