Emanuela Cresti
List of John Benjamins publications for which Emanuela Cresti plays a role.
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Subjects Corpus linguistics | Electronic/Multimedia Products | Romance linguistics
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According to the Language into Act Theory, reference units in speech have a pragmatic nature: they correspond to the activation of sensory-motor schemas leading to the performance of different speech acts. Our background is the affective and psychic motivations of the Human Birth Theory (Fagioli,… read more | Chapter
The paper sketches the Language into Act Theory and how it catches the difference between the Navy monologue and the Hearts dialogue. According to L-AcT, two types of reference units, both ending with a prosodic terminal break are identified: utterance matching with a single speech act and stanza… read more | Chapter
The paper briefly presents the Language into Act Theory (L-AcT) that relies on two primary assumptions: (a) the pragmatic basis of Information Structure (IS); (b) a strict correspondence between prosodic units and information units. The study of IS requires the identification of the proper… read more | Chapter
The paper presents the definition of the TOPIC information unit within the Language into Act Theory (L-AcT) and the prosodic and informational criteria used for its recovery in spontaneous speech corpora: Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and American English. The TOPIC develops the specific… read more | Article
In comparison with writing the performance of spontaneous speech is characterized by a strong reduction of the syntax , anyway a clear and general representation of speech syntax does not emerge with evidence from literature. Our framework , the theory of Language into Act (L-AcT), which is an… read more | Article
Cresti, Emanuela. 2006.
Some Comparisons between UBLI and C-ORAL-ROM.
Spoken Language Corpus and Linguistic Informatics, Kawaguchi, Yuji, Susumu Zaima and Toshihiro Takagaki (eds.), pp. 125–152
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Moneglia, Massimo and Emanuela Cresti. 2006.
C-ORAL-ROM -Prosodic Boundaries for Spontaneous Speech Analysis-.
Spoken Language Corpus and Linguistic Informatics, Kawaguchi, Yuji, Susumu Zaima and Toshihiro Takagaki (eds.), pp. 89–113
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Cresti, Emanuela, Alessandro Panunzi and Antonietta Scarano. 2005.
2. The Italian corpus.
C-ORAL-ROM: Integrated Reference Corpora for Spoken Romance Languages, Cresti, Emanuela and Massimo Moneglia (eds.), pp. 71–110
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