Primary and secondary discourse connectives: Constraints and preferences

Rysová, Magdaléna; Rysová, Kateřina

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2018.03.013

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“…Our conclusions support the assumption that there is usually no pure one-to-one correspondence between connectives across languages, which makes difficult the efforts of NLP processing of discourse relations expressed by connectives across languages. This finding can also be considered a further proof of the fact that some connectives have a broader meaning or broader possibilities of use in texts than other connectives with similar meaning (as presented in [16]).…”

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The Correlation Between Discourse-Anaphoric Devices and an Overall Communicative Competence in Learners’ Essays

Rysová¹,

Rysová²

2018

EDULEARN Proceedings

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In the present paper, we introduce a contrastive study on text coherence in Czech and German. Specifically, we focus on the discourse-anaphoric devices (called anaphoric connectives) contributing to text coherence and we analyze their role in the overall communicative competence of both native and non-native speakers of Czech and German. In our analysis, we firstly examine anaphoric connectives in Czech and we present their frequencies in three corpora -SYN6 and PDiT 2.0 (for texts by native speakers), and MERLIN (for texts by non-native speakers). Then we take a closer look at anaphoric connectives in texts by non-native speakers (learners) of Czech. Specifically, we examine whether the students who actively use such expressions in their writings also have better communicative competence as a whole (i.e. they reach better overall grade). Subsequently, we focus on the ways anaphoric connectives in Czech are translated into German (using the corpus InterCorp) and we provide an analysis of these German counterparts. In the next step, we carry out the same type of analysis for anaphoric connectives in German (with the PCC and the DWDS corpora for native speakers and the MERLIN corpus for non-native speakers). We analyze the results for Czech and German separately, and finally, we carry out a comparative study of these two languages with a focus on the use of our findings in the teaching process and possibly in (automated) translation.Keywords: Communicative competence, discourse, anaphora, anaphoric connectives, discourse connectives, Czech as a foreign language, German as a foreign language.German: Ihre weißen Planken haben wir mit eigenen Händen gezimmert, und die weißen Segel haben unsere Frauen und Töchter gewoben. Darum geben wir sie nicht her, und sie sind uns nicht feil, für keinen Bund und keine Freundschaft.Czech: Bílé kameny jsme opracovávali vlastníma rukama a bílé plachty tkaly naše manželky a dcery. Proto je ani nedáme, ani neprodáme pro žádné spojenectví ani přátelství.All three expressions in bold are originally combinations of a preposition (for(e) in English, um in German and pro in Czech) and an anaphoric expression (there in English, da in German and to in Czech). Anaphoric connectives are special in the way that they combine two discourse phenomena. They connect two text units and signal a semantic relation between them (e.g. therefore expresses a relation of result), similarly as other "non-anaphoric" connectives (e.g. and, but, while or because). At

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“…therefore) and secondary (e.g. for that reason), differing in the degree of grammaticalization as defined in [15] and described in detail in [16]). In this respect, we examine selected primary connectives, i.e.…”

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The Correlation Between Discourse-Anaphoric Devices and an Overall Communicative Competence in Learners’ Essays

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2018

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“…. The expression that means would qualify as an AltLex in the PDTB(Prasad et al, 2007), and as a secondary connective according toRysová and Rysová (2018).…”

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Multiple Signals of Coherence Relations

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Taboada²

2019

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In this paper, we investigate the signalling of coherence relations when they are simultaneously indicated by more than one signal. In particular, we examine the co-occurrence of discourse markers and other relational signals when they are used together to mark a single relation. With the goal to identify the source of the usage of multiple signals, we postulate a twofold hypothesis: the co-occurrence of discourse markers and other textual signals can result from the type of the discourse markers themselves, or it can be triggered by the semantics of the relations in question. We conduct a corpus study, examining instances of multiple signals (co-occurrence of discourse markers and other signals) in the RST Signalling Corpus (Das et al., 2015). We analyze discourse markers that appear as part of multiple signals and also relations that frequently employ multiple signals as their indicators. Our observations suggest that the signalling of relations by multiple signals is a complex phenomenon, since the co-occurrence of discourse markers and other textual signals appears to arise from multiple sources.

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“…This is associated with the instructional value of the neuter ello , which enables the reader to integrate the correct antecedent into a semantic relation, thus supporting the thematic progression and encapsulation requirements. Based on this, a pesar de ello is clearly not a grammaticalized connecting unit, but a complex phrasal construction or secondary discourse connective (Rysová & Rysová, 2018), whose value is constructed from two sources: one referential and one relational. In this binary complex construction, there is a double instruction to the reader, signaled concurrently by a neuter anaphoric pronoun and connective particles.…”

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Stepping back to look ahead: neuter encapsulation and referent extension in counter-argumentative and causal relations in Spanish

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In discourse comprehension, if all goes well, people tend to create a rich and coherent mental representation of the events described in the text. To do so, referential and relational coherence must be established in order to construct a connected discourse. The objective of this follow-up eye-tracking study (N = 72) is to explore the existence of an interaction effect between two factors: (a) the extension of the referent (short and long antecedent), and (b) the semantic relation (counter-argumentativea pesar de, and causalpor), when processing the neuter pronounelloin texts written in Spanish. No previous study has systematically compared the on-line processing of texts in which different extensions of the encapsulated anaphoric antecedent by the neuter pronounello(‘this’ or ‘it’ in English) are presented in diverse marked semantic relations (causal and counter-argumentative). Based on three eye-tracking measures, we found distinctive patterns of reading behavior when anaphoric neuter reference and semantic relations must be processed conjointly in order to construct a coherent mental representation. The main findings show that reading longer and more complex antecedents encapsulated by the neutral pronounselloexerts more cognitive effort in late processing (Look Back measure), particularly when simultaneously and in the same discourse construction there is an explicitly marked counter-argumentative semantic relation. Implications for theories of referential and relational coherence are discussed.

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Primary and secondary discourse connectives: Constraints and preferences

Cited by 16 publications

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The Correlation Between Discourse-Anaphoric Devices and an Overall Communicative Competence in Learners’ Essays

The Correlation Between Discourse-Anaphoric Devices and an Overall Communicative Competence in Learners’ Essays

Multiple Signals of Coherence Relations

Stepping back to look ahead: neuter encapsulation and referent extension in counter-argumentative and causal relations in Spanish

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