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Discourse markers and the segmentation of spontaneous speech - The case of Swedish men 'but/and/so'

Horne, Merle LU orcid ; Hansson, Petra ; Bruce, Gösta LU ; Frid, Johan LU orcid and Filipsson, Marcus (1999) In Working Papers, Lund University, Dept. of Linguistics 47.
Abstract
Prosodic and lexical correlates of ‘clause-like’ and ‘paragraph-like’ boundaries associated with the Swedish discourse marker men ‘but/and/so’ are examined. Men-tokens in spontaneous monologues were labelled as to their boundary-status, first using text-only data. The ‘strong’ tokens (labelled identically by all labellers) were subsequently seen to be correlated with clear differences in the prosodic and lexical parameters examined. This tendency was not found for the corresponding ‘weak’ tokens which were subsequently relabelled using both text and speech nor for the data-base as a whole. A test using a neural network trained using strong tokens is seen to be able to correctly categorize 90% of the strong men-tokens as to their associated... (More)
Prosodic and lexical correlates of ‘clause-like’ and ‘paragraph-like’ boundaries associated with the Swedish discourse marker men ‘but/and/so’ are examined. Men-tokens in spontaneous monologues were labelled as to their boundary-status, first using text-only data. The ‘strong’ tokens (labelled identically by all labellers) were subsequently seen to be correlated with clear differences in the prosodic and lexical parameters examined. This tendency was not found for the corresponding ‘weak’ tokens which were subsequently relabelled using both text and speech nor for the data-base as a whole. A test using a neural network trained using strong tokens is seen to be able to correctly categorize 90% of the strong men-tokens as to their associated boundary-type. The results show that discourse markers along with their prosodic and lexical correlates constitute a constellation of important information for understanding how segmentation of speech is produced and understood (Less)
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  author       = {{Horne, Merle and Hansson, Petra and Bruce, Gösta and Frid, Johan and Filipsson, Marcus}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Working Paper}},
  series       = {{Working Papers, Lund University, Dept. of Linguistics}},
  title        = {{Discourse markers and the segmentation of spontaneous speech - The case of Swedish men 'but/and/so'}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/6338961/624451.pdf}},
  volume       = {{47}},
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