Discourse Structure and Intonational Phrasing

Heusinger, Klaus von

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“…In this paper, we will be concerned only with continuative boundary tones of IP phrases and will ignore the informational and semantics status of other tones and contours (see Corblin and de Swart (2004, part V), Ladd (1996Ladd ( /2008.2), Marandin (2006), Von Heusinger (2007, for a variety of perspectives). Our official terminology for these tones will be discourse C(ontinuative) R(ises).…”

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The semantics of French continuative rises in SDRT

Jayez¹,

Dargnat²

2012

Constraints in Discourse 3

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We examine the status of French major continuative prosodic contours, which are mainly realised as final rises at the boundary of sentences. We show how to substantiate the common intuition that these contours convey 'continuation'. We report empirical evidence that indicates that native speakers cannot distinguish major continuatives and questions in isolated discourse segments. We then show how to integrate continuatives into a liberal version of Asher's SDRT. In essence, we propose that any discourse constituent bearing a major continuative (i) has a default question interpretation when taken in isolation and (ii) constrains attachments at the point where it occurs, when considered in the context of a discourse.

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The semantics of French continuative rises in SDRT

Jayez¹,

Dargnat²

2012

Constraints in Discourse 3

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“…De acuerdo con von Heusinger (2007), las características que se le han otorgado a las IP no son exactamente concisas. No obstante, explica este autor, hay criterios fonéticos, sintácticos y semánticos que ayudan a delimitar una frase entonativa mayor: 1) puede estar precedido o seguido por una pausa; 2) contiene la presencia del acento más prominente; 3) algunas veces, el linde está marcado por un tono de juntura; 4) el linde puede bloquear algunos fenómenos de juntura; 5) los lindes corresponden con los de algunos constituyentes sintácticos; 6) el material lingüístico debe constituir una unidad de sentido o información.…”

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Configuraciones tonales de frases entonativas en enunciados aseverativos del español de la Ciudad de México

Márquez

2020

adel

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The objective of this paper is to describe the prosodic features of the final intonation contour of minor intonational phrases (ip) and the tonemes of major intonational phrases (IP) in Mexico City’s Spanish variety. The speech data was taken from a spontaneous speech corpus made from speakers from two social networks: neighborhood and labor. Final intonation contours of ip show a predominantly rising movement. These contours are generally produced with greater length in the last syllable of the ip, which represents the most significant difference between both networks in the case of oxitone endings. On the other hand, tonemes are predominantly descendant, although the circumflex accent has an important number of cases within the data set. Tonemes produced by the neighborhood network are produced with larger length than those from the labor network.

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Discourse theories vs. Topic-Focus articulation applied to prosodic focus assignment in Romanian

Curteanu

Trandabăț

Moruz

2009

2009 Proceedings of the 5-Th Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue

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…it is not the argument structure that triggers the intonational phrasing, but the [discourse, subclausal n.b.] relation of backgrounding." (K. von Heusinger, 2007) Is it? If yes, how? The present paper, maintaining our attempts for applying Prague School's Topic-Focus Articulation (TFA) algorithm on the syntax-prosody interface of Romanian, proposes two comparative lines of investigation for the intonational focus assignment: (A) The TFA algorithm is improved at clause level with hints from Gussenhoven's SAAR (Sentence Accent Assignment Rule), then extended to inter-clause level, i.e. complex sentences. The new shape of the TFA algorithm is applied to compute the Topic-Focus values in the discursive context, while the information-structural (IS) spans of Theme(s)-Rheme(s) are detached, at clause level, as lowest-highest degrees of Communicative Dynamism (CD) vs. Systemic Order (SO). (B) The second approach we experiment for assigning intonational focus and phrasing is based on the combined and intensive use of discourse theories for computing the IS categories and structures: the Background-Kontrast entities (associated with the Prague School's Topic-Focus) are obtained with Asher's (1993) Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) analysis, while Theme-Rheme structures within the finite clause are computed with Leong's (2004) Inference-Boundary (IB) algorithm (of Hallidayan inspiration), applied for the first time to Romanian. Furthermore, this second direction is inspired from and joins the IS-discourse theory proposed by Heusinger (2007), which relies on SDRT inter-clausal evolution of discourse variables for computing the Background-Kontrast. While maintaining the classical SDRT (including rhetorical) discourse relations at the inter-clause level, Heusinger introduces a set of IS-semantics relations, and hands down at sub-clause level the rhetorical and focus particle relations with significant role in intonational-prosodic phrasing. Examples of these two types of research are compared to a gold, intonationally annotated set of Romanian sentences, the proposed theoretical and procedural techniques aiming to balance the pessimistic-realistic view on prosody prediction that it is the speaker-presupposition (and hearer-accommodation) which determines the IS focal scopes, rather than the bare text.

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Discourse Structure and Intonational Phrasing

Cited by 6 publications

References 10 publications

The semantics of French continuative rises in SDRT

The semantics of French continuative rises in SDRT

Configuraciones tonales de frases entonativas en enunciados aseverativos del español de la Ciudad de México

Discourse theories vs. Topic-Focus articulation applied to prosodic focus assignment in Romanian

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