Emanuela Cresti

List of John Benjamins publications for which Emanuela Cresti plays a role.

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C-ORAL-ROM: Integrated Reference Corpora for Spoken Romance Languages

Edited by Emanuela Cresti and Massimo Moneglia

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 15] 2005. xviii, 304 pp. (incl. DVD)
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
Cresti, Emanuela and Massimo Moneglia. 2020. Chapter 7. Some notes on the Hearts and Navy excerpts according to the Language into Act Theory. In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language: A corpus-driven approach, Izre'el, Shlomo, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso (eds.), pp. 383–402
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
Cresti, Emanuela and Massimo Moneglia. 2018. Chapter 13. The illocutionary basis of information structure: The Language into Act Theory (L-AcT). Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages: Studies in prosody and syntax, Adamou, Evangelia, Katharina Haude and Martine Vanhove (eds.), pp. 360–402
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
Cresti, Emanuela and Massimo Moneglia. 2018. The definition of the TOPIC within Language into Act Theory and its identification in spontaneous speech corpora. Models of Discourse Units in Romance Languages, Borreguero Zuloaga, Margarita, Vahram Atayan and Sybille Große (eds.), pp. 30–62
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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