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In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language: A corpus-driven approach
Edited by Shlomo Izre'el, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 94] 2020
► pp. 127–154

Chapter 4
Syntactic and prosodic segmentation in spoken French

| Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle LaTTiCe UMR 8094
| Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot UFRL, LLF UMR 7110

This chapter presents first of all the analytical framework adopted for the syntactical study of spoken French productions. In line with the work of the pronominal approach, the framework postulates that three components are involved in the constitution of utterances. Two syntactical components, micro- and macrosyntax, and a prosodic component interact independently in the constitution of units. The second part of the chapter presents the application of this framework to the analysis of a conversation excerpt and an excerpt from a monologue.

Keywords: macrosyntax, microsyntax, prosodic component, pronominal approach, spoken French
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Linguistic framework
    • 2.1From text units to discourse units
    • 2.2The syntactic subcomponent
      • 2.2.1Combination of microsyntactic units
      • 2.2.2Combination of macrosyntactic units
    • 2.3Prosodic component
    • 2.4The interface rules between the formal components
  • 3.Descriptive issues
    • 3.1Simple utterances: Nuclei
    • 3.2Compound utterances: Nucleus + Satellite
    • 3.3Configurations as extended discourse patterns: Grouping
    • 3.4Ungrouping: Epexegesis
    • 3.5Some remarkable configurations in monologue
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 18 June 2020
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