The basic unit of spoken language and the interfaces between prosody, discourse and syntax

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Abstract

Looking at spoken language as an integrative whole, where prosody, syntax and discourse features interplay as to conveying information, I will try to figure out the best methodology for its research by advocating that the best candidate to be regarded as the basic unit of spoken discourse is the utterance. Arguments brought will be mainly phonetic, phonological (prosodic), informational, and syntactic. In addition, arguments from pragmatics and conversation analysis will be mentioned.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIn Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language. A corpus-driven approach
EditorsShlomo Izre'el, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi, Tommaso Raso
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages77-105
Number of pages29
ISBN (Electronic)9789027261533
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020

Publication series

NameStudies in Corpus Linguistics
Volume94
ISSN (Print)1388-0373

Keywords

  • Clause
  • Hebrew
  • Predicate
  • Prosodic units
  • Segmentation
  • Spoken language
  • Syntax
  • Utterance

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