2009
DOI: 10.4000/discours.5952
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A data-driven study of temporal adverbials as discourse segmentation markers

Abstract: Abstract:Many linguistic and psycholinguistic studies present sentence-initial temporal adverbials as "good" markers of discourse segmentation. This paper proposes a corpus-based evaluation of their potential to signal discontinuity such as a discourse break or shift. We look in particular at how temporal adverbials interact with other features, such as position in the text (in relation to document structure), and type of referring expression as grammatical subject in the host sentence. Our methodology calls u… Show more

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“…Therefore, the first step in the analysis of Disappointment was the construction of a shadow story, which consisted of the merger of the two versions -spoken and written, covering the entirety of the story's events and their evaluation by the narrator. The merged shadow story was then divided into content units or spans, based on criteria of thematic and structural continuity, discourse aboutness, rhetorical signaling, and (in the case of the written units) document structure (Degand & Simon 2009;Ho-Dac & Péry-Woodley 2009). The detailed comparison of modality effects on the expression of each content unit constituted the heart of this study.…”
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“…Therefore, the first step in the analysis of Disappointment was the construction of a shadow story, which consisted of the merger of the two versions -spoken and written, covering the entirety of the story's events and their evaluation by the narrator. The merged shadow story was then divided into content units or spans, based on criteria of thematic and structural continuity, discourse aboutness, rhetorical signaling, and (in the case of the written units) document structure (Degand & Simon 2009;Ho-Dac & Péry-Woodley 2009). The detailed comparison of modality effects on the expression of each content unit constituted the heart of this study.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…(iv) Information flow, processing, and cohesion. This analysis relates to aspects of cohesion and fluency in the text, specifically regarding how linguistic units cluster around interpretation criteria and join into continuation spans (Chafe 1992;Ho-Dac & Péry-Woodley 2009;Kehler et al 2008). This includes, for example, disfluency markers such as false starts, hesitation markers, and re-formulations in the spoken version of Content Unit 9 (End of story).…”
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“…Cette approche s'est révélée particulièrement fructueuse, permettant la description de nombreux candidats-marqueurs de la segmentation du discours. On peut citer les études sur la fonction cadrative, ou plus simplement de segmentation, des expressions adverbiales temporelles et spatiales que ce soit dans de petits nombres de textes ou dans des collections de textes relativement grandes (Charolles, 2007 ;Crompton, 2006 ;Ho-Dac et Péry-Woodley, 2009 ;Piérard et Bestgen, 2006 ;Virtanen, 1992), mais aussi des études centrées sur une expression spécifique comme à travers (Stosic, 2012) ou selon X (Schrepfer-André, 2005). La limitation principale de l'approche sémasiologique est qu'elle ne peut être employée que lorsqu'on dispose d'une liste de candidats-marqueurs afin de vérifier si ceux-ci fonctionnent bien comme tels.…”
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“…Ces études suggèrent que la recherche d'indices de segmentation et de liage au moyen de l'analyse de grandes quantités de texte par une procédure d'apprentissage supervisé pourrait se révéler efficace. Il est aussi nécessaire de mentionner que Piérard et Bestgen (2006) et Ho-Dac et Péry-Woodley (2009 ont analysé l'occurrence d'expressions adverbiales en fonction du découpage en paragraphes, mais l'approche employée est sémasiologique, cherchant à évaluer des hypothèses linguistiques à propos du statut d'indices de segmentation de ces expressions.…”
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