“…It has been suggested that transitions can be identifi ed thanks to a number of linguistic markers. A wide array of markers of topic structure have been proposed in the literature: a concord of agreements and/or pauses (Maynard, 1980), existential structures (Berthoud, 1996;Geluykens, 1993), phatics and interjections (Berthoud & Mondada, 1995), dislocations (Grobet, 2002), cle s (Grobet, 2002), discourse markers (Horne et al, 2001) such as so (Bolden, 2006), new referents (Keenan Ochs & Schieff elin, 1976), etc. As far as prosodic cues are concerned, pitch parameters such as higher onsets (Nakajima & Allen, 1993), more range variation (Zellers, 2013) and fundamental equency peaks (Swerts & Geluykens, 1994) have been identifi ed for new topics.…”