A data-driven study of temporal adverbials as discourse segmentation markers

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 ad...

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Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses universitaires de Caen 2017-10-01
Series:Discours
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/discours/5952