Publications
Publication details [#13719]
Prideaux, Gary D. and John T. Hogan. 1995. The Role of Markedness in Coding Episode Boundaries: Evidence from Oral and Written Discourse. In Wårvik, Brita, Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen and Risto Hiltunen, eds. Organization in Discourse. Proceedings from the Turku Conference. (Anglicana Turkuensia 15). University of Turku. pp. 459–466.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
Data from three independent studies, i.e. oral and written descriptive narratives and more formal written data from English and oral data from Mandarin, provide support for the hypothesis that one important function of marked structures is to code the onset of a new discourse unit.