Table of contents
AcknowledgmentsXI
Introduction.In search of a basic unit of spoken language: Segmenting speech1
Part I
Chapter 1.Russian spoken discourse: Local structure and prosody35
Chapter 2.The basic unit of spoken language and the interfaces between prosody, discourse and
syntax: A view from spontaneous spoken Hebrew77
Chapter 3.Prosody and the organization of information in Central Pomo, a California indigenous
language107
Chapter 4.Syntactic and prosodic segmentation in spoken French127
Chapter 5.Design and annotation of two-level utterance units in Japanese155
Chapter 6.The pragmatic analysis of speech and its illocutionary classification according to the
Language into Act Theory181
Chapter 7.Illocution as a unit of reference for spontaneous speech: An account of insubordinated
adverbial clauses in Brazilian Portuguese221
Chapter 8.Narrative discourse segmentation in clinical linguistics257
Chapter 9.Cross-linguistic comparison of automatic detection of speech breaks in read and narrated
speech in four languages285
Part II
Introduction.Same texts, different approaches to segmentation: An introduction to the second part of
the volume303
Chapter 1.Segmentation and analysis of the two English excerpts: The Brazilian team
proposal309
Chapter 2.Analysis of two English spontaneous speech examples with the dependency incremental
prosodic structure model327
Chapter 3.Applying criteria of spontaneous hebrew speech segmentation to English337
Chapter 4.Basic units of speech segmentation349
Chapter 5.Segmentation of the English texts Navy and Hearts with
SUU and LUU359
Chapter 6.The Moscow approach to local discourse structure: An application to English367
Chapter 7.Some notes on the Hearts and Navy excerpts according
to the Language into Act Theory383
Chapter 8.Comparing annotations for the prosodic segmentation of spontaneous speech: Focus on
reference units403
Index433
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