Morphosyntactic, prosodic, functional and distributional description of the information unit of Parenthesis in spoken Brazilian Portuguese

Santos, Saulo Mendes; Bossaglia, Giulia

doi:10.58967/caletroscopio.v6.nesp.2018.3829

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“…19 Cfr. short and long PAR in Santos & Bossaglia (2018). mean not only compared to the first interrupted part but also compared to the preceding part.…”

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Parenthetical Units and Structures in Italian and German spoken language: Prosodic and textual analysis

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Trombetta

2021

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This work presents the prosodic analysis of Parenthetical Units in spoken Italian and German within the theoretical framework of the Language into Act Theory (L-AcT), which defines such textual units as Parentheses (PARs), i.e. devices used by the speaker to add information to the utterance on a secondary level of the text. Data were extracted from the Italian Minicorpus of the DB-IPIC resource and from the German FOLK corpus. Linguistic content and distribution of Parentheses were analyzed. Furthermore, a subset of approximately 100 PARs was selected for each corpus and these were prosodically analyzed in relation to the mandatory textual units called Comment within the L-AcT framework, which express the illocutionary force of the utterance. The results show similar characteristics for the two languages, such as an overall decrease of f0 values of the PARs and the correlation between the length of the PARs, as well as the presence of additional units separating it from the COM, and frequency values. The authors also noted the presence of Parenthetical Structures that go beyond the level of the simple textual unit, which could suggest that Parentheses are a wider textual strategy operating as inter-utterance.

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“…19 Cfr. short and long PAR in Santos & Bossaglia (2018). mean not only compared to the first interrupted part but also compared to the preceding part.…”

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“…As part of L-AcT, a further in-depth study on PAR can be found inSantos & Bossaglia (2018) about Brazilian Portuguese spoken language.…”

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Parenthetical Units and Structures in Italian and German spoken language: Prosodic and textual analysis

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Trombetta

2021

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Le unità di informazione Parentetiche alla periferia destra del Comment nella Teoria della Lingua in Atto

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Secondo la teoria della Lingua in Atto, le unità di informazione parentetiche inseriscono nell’enunciato informazioni poste su un piano locutivo secondario rispetto alla relazione Topic/Comment. Possono apparire in tutte le posizioni, ma non in prima posizione  e non sono mai composizionali con un’altra unità di informazione. Le Parentesi poste alla periferia destra del Comment possono essere confuse con le unità di Appendice,  in quanto la realizzazione prosodica risulta simile, nonostante le Appendici esprimano informazioni ridondanti che invece integrano il Comment. Sulla base del Data Base dell’Articolazione dell’Informazione IPIC il lavoro esplora le ragioni che consentono l’individuazione dei Parentetici nei Corpora di parlato spontaneo Italiano. Dati i loro valori semantici, le valutazioni modali e i commenti metalinguistici (che sono la grande maggioranza delle parentesi brevi nel discorso) introducono un salto nella prospettiva dell’enunciato che li colloca automaticamente su un piano locutivo secondario e non possono mai essere Appendici. Al contrario, altri tipi di espressioni che anche riempiono l’unità Parentetica (congiunzioni, se-frasi, avverbi e argomenti esterni, parentesi lunghe) possono essere in linea di principio considerate integrazioni del Comment. Il lavoro sostiene che l'interpretazione tra parentesi di queste unità di informazione risulta sottodeterminata a meno che il parlante  non segnali il valore parentetico attraverso segnali prosodici o multimodali. Secondo i risultati dell’analisi condotta, inoltre, le parentesi lunghe in posizione finale non vengono realizzate come unità informative dell’enunciato ma piuttosto come "enunciati parentetici", pienamente autonomi.   According to the Language Into Act Theory, Parenthetical units insert in the Utterance information that is placed on a secondary locutive plan with respect to the Topic / Comment relation. They can appear in all but not in the first position of the utterance and are never compositional with another information unit. Because of prosodic similarities, however, Parenthesis placed at the right periphery of the Comment can be confused with Appendix units, which on the contrary express redundant information complementing the Comment. On the basis of the IPIC Information Structure Data-Base the paper explore the reasons which allow their detection in Italian Spontaneous Speech Corpora. Because of their semantic values, Modal evaluations and Metalinguistic commentaries (the large majority of Parenthesis in speech) introduce a jump in the perspective of the utterance, which places them on a secondary locutive plan and can never be Appendixes. On the contrary other types of expressions that can also fill the Parenthetical unit (conjunctions, if-sentences, adverbials and external arguments, long parenthetical) can be in principle also integrations of the Comment. The paper argues that the parenthetical interpretation of these information units will remain under-determined unless the speaker signals this value through prosodic or multimodal cues. Moreover, according to our finding, long parenthesis in the final position are not performed as information units of the utterance but rather as fully autonomous “parenthetical utterance”.

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Morphosyntactic, prosodic, functional and distributional description of the information unit of Parenthesis in spoken Brazilian Portuguese

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Parenthetical Units and Structures in Italian and German spoken language: Prosodic and textual analysis

Parenthetical Units and Structures in Italian and German spoken language: Prosodic and textual analysis

Le unità di informazione Parentetiche alla periferia destra del Comment nella Teoria della Lingua in Atto

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