Under-explicit and minimally explicit reference: Evidence from a longitudinal case study [PDF]
This chapter reports on a 2 ½ year longitudinal case study of one Korean speaker of English, focusing on the development of her command of accessibility marking in referring to persons.
Ryan, Jonathon
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El español de los textos jurídicos comunitarios y españoles: el caso de los marcadores del discurso presentes en un corpus de reglamentos del DOUE y en otro de leyes del BOE [PDF]
In recent years, the analysis of discourse markers in peninsular Spanish has drawn the interest of researchers and stimulated the productions of a considerable number of studies.
Medina Montero, José Francisco
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Is Inuktitut a morphological argument language? [PDF]
In the following I will discuss grammatical structures of Inuktitut, an Eskimo language spoken in the Canadian Eastern Arctic. Inuktitut is a polysynthetic language exhibiting an exceedingly elaborate verbal inflectional system including polypersonal ...
Nowak, Elke
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Pragmatic functions of lengthenings and filled pauses in the adult-directed speech of Hungarian children [PDF]
Two most common disfluencies of spontaneous speech, vowel lengthenings (VLE) and non-lexicalized filled pauses (NLFP) were investigated in the adult-directed speech of eight Hungarian children.
Deme, Andrea
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From ergativus absolutus to topic marking in Kiranti : a typological perspective [PDF]
In many languages, clauses can be subordinated by means of case markers. For Bodic languages, a branch of Sino-Tibetan, Genetti (1986) has shown that the meaning of case markers on clauses is in most instances a natural extension of their function on ...
Bickel, Balthasar
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The role of discourse markers in the speeches of selected Asian Presidents. [PDF]
Banguis-Bantawig R.
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Discourse Markers in English and Lithuanian
Тhе paper is devoted to a contrastive analysis of the use of discourse markers in English and Lithuanian everyday conversation. Though the status of discourse marker in English has not yet been fully clarified, it has been widely discussed. In Lithuanian, however, no attempts have been made to delimit this category.
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The Distribution of Discourse Markers in Educational Discourse
Discourse markers play a crucial role in communication. They have a vital role in connecting sentences and utterances making the conversation or talk coherent. This study sheds light on the distribution of discourse markers in communication particularly in educational discourse.
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Speech-driven Animation with Meaningful Behaviors
Conversational agents (CAs) play an important role in human computer interaction. Creating believable movements for CAs is challenging, since the movements have to be meaningful and natural, reflecting the coupling between gestures and speech. Studies in
Busso, Carlos, Sadoughi, Najmeh
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