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Discourse segmentation in romance languages /

This chapter presents an empirical study of the left periphery of Basic Discourse Units, viz. the linguistic segments that speakers and hearers use to interpret the discourse they are engaged in. A Basic Discourse Unit is bound by the mapping of a syntactic (dependency) structure and a major intonat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pons Bordería, Salvador (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 250.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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