{"title":"L’émotion à un niveau textuel : la fonction structurante des émotions observée à partir d’annotations","authors":"D. Battistelli, Aline Étienne, Gwénolé Lecorvé","doi":"10.4000/discours.12114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/discours.12114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51977,"journal":{"name":"Discours-Revue de Linguistique Psycholinguistique et Informatique","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46801061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Descriptively Adequate and Cognitively Plausible? Validating Distinctions between Types of Coherence Relations","authors":"Merel C. J. Scholman, Vera Demberg, T. Sanders","doi":"10.4000/discours.12075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/discours.12075","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51977,"journal":{"name":"Discours-Revue de Linguistique Psycholinguistique et Informatique","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46237872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Signaling of Continuative and Contrastive Discourse Relations in English Argumentative Discourse: Corpus-Based and Experimental Perspectives","authors":"Matthias Klumm","doi":"10.4000/discours.12044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/discours.12044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51977,"journal":{"name":"Discours-Revue de Linguistique Psycholinguistique et Informatique","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44337441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Acquisition of the NP in a German-Polish Bilingual Child. Evidence for Cross-Linguistic Influence","authors":"Anna Jachimek, C. Dimroth, K. Köpcke","doi":"10.4000/discours.11800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/discours.11800","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51977,"journal":{"name":"Discours-Revue de Linguistique Psycholinguistique et Informatique","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48476100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
It has been suggested that acquiring the appropriate use of referring expressions consists of a shift from an initial focus on global accessibility factors, e.g., animacy or character type, towards primarily considering local accessibility factors, such as information status, referential function and topicality. At which age this shift takes place remains an open question. The present study investigates anaphoric reference in picture-based written narratives by German-speaking 10-year-olds and adults. We analyse and compare the extent to which referential function (maintenance vs. reintroduction), a local accessibility factor, and character type (main character vs. secondary character), a global accessibility factor, influence children’s and adults’ choice of referring expression. The results show that referential function affected referential choice in both children and adults, with significantly higher proportions of pronouns in maintenance than in reintroduction. However, character type only influenced the children, who produced a significantly higher proportion of pronouns with main characters than with secondary characters. These results suggest that children’s referring expression use is not yet fully adultlike at age 10, and that adults and children weigh local and global accessibility factors differently: global factors play a role in children’s referential choice in addition to local ones, whereas adults are primarily influenced by local accessibility factors.
{"title":"Anaphoric Reference in Written Narratives by German-Speaking 10-Year-Olds and Adults: The Influence of Referential Function and Character Type","authors":"Ina Lehmkuhle, Josefin Lindgren","doi":"10.4000/discours.11723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/discours.11723","url":null,"abstract":"It has been suggested that acquiring the appropriate use of referring expressions consists of a shift from an initial focus on global accessibility factors, e.g., animacy or character type, towards primarily considering local accessibility factors, such as information status, referential function and topicality. At which age this shift takes place remains an open question. The present study investigates anaphoric reference in picture-based written narratives by German-speaking 10-year-olds and adults. We analyse and compare the extent to which referential function (maintenance vs. reintroduction), a local accessibility factor, and character type (main character vs. secondary character), a global accessibility factor, influence children’s and adults’ choice of referring expression. The results show that referential function affected referential choice in both children and adults, with significantly higher proportions of pronouns in maintenance than in reintroduction. However, character type only influenced the children, who produced a significantly higher proportion of pronouns with main characters than with secondary characters. These results suggest that children’s referring expression use is not yet fully adultlike at age 10, and that adults and children weigh local and global accessibility factors differently: global factors play a role in children’s referential choice in addition to local ones, whereas adults are primarily influenced by local accessibility factors.","PeriodicalId":51977,"journal":{"name":"Discours-Revue de Linguistique Psycholinguistique et Informatique","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42866345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Le repérage des coréférences est une tâche difficile pour laquelle l’identification des singletons est un enjeu important. En effet, celle-ci permettrait d’améliorer le processus d’annotation de corpus et la connaissance des chaînes de référence. Pour y parvenir, il est important de déterminer si, au plan linguistique, les singletons sont, ou non, pourvus de propriétés linguistiques propres. Après un état de la question, l’article présente une étude de corpus dont le résultat permet de « profiler » les mentions d’un référent restant à l’état de singleton. Un millier de mentions ont été étudiées dans différents genres et types de textes. Il apparaît alors que le genre / type de texte et la catégorie ontologique du référent permettent de prévoir la reprise ou l’absence de reprise d’un référent dans un texte. Mots clés : coréférence, singletons, annotation, corpus, genre de texte, chaîne de référence Finding coreferences in corpora is a difficult task for which the identification of singletons is an important issue. Solving this issue would allow for improving the process of corpus annotation and the identification of referential chains. To achieve this, it is important to determine whether or not singletons have linguistic properties of their own. After an overview of the question, the article presents a corpus study. Based on the results of the study, it is possible to “profile” the mentions of a referent remaining in the singleton state. A thousand mentions were studied in different genres and types of texts. The results suggest that the genre/text type and the ontological category of the referent predict the repetition or the absence of repetition of a referent in a text.
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{"title":"Identifier les « singletons » dans des corpus français annotés en coréférence : peut-on prévoir l’absence de reprise coréférentielle ?","authors":"Hélène Manuélian, C. Schnedecker","doi":"10.4000/discours.11729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/discours.11729","url":null,"abstract":"Le repérage des coréférences est une tâche difficile pour laquelle l’identification des singletons est un enjeu important. En effet, celle-ci permettrait d’améliorer le processus d’annotation de corpus et la connaissance des chaînes de référence. Pour y parvenir, il est important de déterminer si, au plan linguistique, les singletons sont, ou non, pourvus de propriétés linguistiques propres. Après un état de la question, l’article présente une étude de corpus dont le résultat permet de « profiler » les mentions d’un référent restant à l’état de singleton. Un millier de mentions ont été étudiées dans différents genres et types de textes. Il apparaît alors que le genre / type de texte et la catégorie ontologique du référent permettent de prévoir la reprise ou l’absence de reprise d’un référent dans un texte. Mots clés : coréférence, singletons, annotation, corpus, genre de texte, chaîne de référence Finding coreferences in corpora is a difficult task for which the identification of singletons is an important issue. Solving this issue would allow for improving the process of corpus annotation and the identification of referential chains. To achieve this, it is important to determine whether or not singletons have linguistic properties of their own. After an overview of the question, the article presents a corpus study. Based on the results of the study, it is possible to “profile” the mentions of a referent remaining in the singleton state. A thousand mentions were studied in different genres and types of texts. The results suggest that the genre/text type and the ontological category of the referent predict the repetition or the absence of repetition of a referent in a text.","PeriodicalId":51977,"journal":{"name":"Discours-Revue de Linguistique Psycholinguistique et Informatique","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44410463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Previous studies on non-native (L2) anaphor resolution suggest that L2 comprehenders are guided more strongly by discourse-level cues compared to native (L1) comprehenders. Here we examine whether and how a grammatically inappropriate antecedent’s discourse status affects the likelihood of it being considered during L1 and L2 pronoun resolution. We used an interference paradigm to examine how the extrasentential discourse impacts the resolution of German object pronouns. In an eye-tracking-during-reading experiment we examined whether an elaborated local antecedent ruled out by binding Condition B would be mis-retrieved during pronoun resolution, and whether initially introducing this antecedent as the discourse topic would affect the chances of it being mis-retrieved. While both participant groups rejected the inappropriate antecedent in an offline questionnaire irrespective of its discourse prominence, their real-time processing patterns differed. L1 speakers initially mis-retrieved the inappropriate antecedent regardless of its contextual prominence. L1 Russian/L2 German speakers, in contrast, were affected by the antecedent’s discourse status, considering it only when it was discourse-new but not when it had previously been introduced as the discourse topic. Our findings show that L2 comprehenders are highly sensitive to discourse dynamics such as topic shifts, supporting the claim that discourse-level cues are more strongly weighted during L2 compared to L1 processing.
{"title":"Discourse Prominence and Antecedent Mis-Retrieval during Native and Non-Native Pronoun Resolution","authors":"Cecilia Puebla, C. Felser","doi":"10.4000/discours.11720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/discours.11720","url":null,"abstract":"Previous studies on non-native (L2) anaphor resolution suggest that L2 comprehenders are guided more strongly by discourse-level cues compared to native (L1) comprehenders. Here we examine whether and how a grammatically inappropriate antecedent’s discourse status affects the likelihood of it being considered during L1 and L2 pronoun resolution. We used an interference paradigm to examine how the extrasentential discourse impacts the resolution of German object pronouns. In an eye-tracking-during-reading experiment we examined whether an elaborated local antecedent ruled out by binding Condition B would be mis-retrieved during pronoun resolution, and whether initially introducing this antecedent as the discourse topic would affect the chances of it being mis-retrieved. While both participant groups rejected the inappropriate antecedent in an offline questionnaire irrespective of its discourse prominence, their real-time processing patterns differed. L1 speakers initially mis-retrieved the inappropriate antecedent regardless of its contextual prominence. L1 Russian/L2 German speakers, in contrast, were affected by the antecedent’s discourse status, considering it only when it was discourse-new but not when it had previously been introduced as the discourse topic. Our findings show that L2 comprehenders are highly sensitive to discourse dynamics such as topic shifts, supporting the claim that discourse-level cues are more strongly weighted during L2 compared to L1 processing.","PeriodicalId":51977,"journal":{"name":"Discours-Revue de Linguistique Psycholinguistique et Informatique","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43398384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Our study focuses on morpho-syntactic complexity, trying to identify the specific subordinated modalities of organizing and packaging information in a narration. This purpose will be achieved by combining the morpho-syntactic analysis with the type of contents that subordinate clauses convey with respect to the informational flux of textual structure (foreground vs. background alternation). A functionalist and enunciative framework is adopted. The following questions will be addressed: (1) which types of morpho-syntactic structures – main or subordinated, finite or non finite – are exploited to convey the subordinated contents selected? (2) do the informants tend to hierarchize the expressed contents? (3) which types of semantic and/or logical components (temporality, causality, etc.) are selected to be narrated and highlighted through subordination? We shall demonstrate that only the interaction of several factors – core morphological facts, interactional and discourse habits – can exhaustively explain the textual perspectives observed in our L1 and L2 data, with interesting consequences for second language acquisition.
{"title":"Subordination in Italian and English: Implications for Second Language Acquisition1","authors":"Patrizia Giuliano, Simona Anastasio","doi":"10.4000/discours.11434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/discours.11434","url":null,"abstract":"Our study focuses on morpho-syntactic complexity, trying to identify the specific subordinated modalities of organizing and packaging information in a narration. This purpose will be achieved by combining the morpho-syntactic analysis with the type of contents that subordinate clauses convey with respect to the informational flux of textual structure (foreground vs. background alternation). A functionalist and enunciative framework is adopted. The following questions will be addressed: (1) which types of morpho-syntactic structures – main or subordinated, finite or non finite – are exploited to convey the subordinated contents selected? (2) do the informants tend to hierarchize the expressed contents? (3) which types of semantic and/or logical components (temporality, causality, etc.) are selected to be narrated and highlighted through subordination? We shall demonstrate that only the interaction of several factors – core morphological facts, interactional and discourse habits – can exhaustively explain the textual perspectives observed in our L1 and L2 data, with interesting consequences for second language acquisition.","PeriodicalId":51977,"journal":{"name":"Discours-Revue de Linguistique Psycholinguistique et Informatique","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45368956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this paper we present an analysis of the information structural properties of different types of verb and sentence modifying adjuncts under a QUD (question under discussion) approach. Our study is based on naturalistic data from English, French and German containing adjuncts such as temporal, spatial, or manner prepositional phrases, as well as different types of adverbial clauses. The analysis relies on the approach by Riester et al. (2018), which identifies the (generally implicit, sometimes overt) QUD preceding each utterance of a text by means of pragmatic principles, and derives from it the information structure of the utterance. The analysis of adjuncts within this approach shows that in certain contexts, despite conveying new information, adjuncts do not answer the QUD that is answered by the sentence they syntactically depend on. We argue that these adjuncts answer a different QUD and behave as independent discourse units. As such, they have an information structure of their own and are in a rhetorical relation with their host clause. Our analysis sheds light on the similarities between adjuncts and Potts’ (2005) supplements. Both can be accounted for as independent discourse units; however, while supplements display projective behavior, adjuncts do not. Following Venhuizen et al. (2014), we ascribe this difference to their different semantic anchor (nominal vs. verbal). Our work therefore highlights a different way for an expression to be independent at a discourse level, other than being projective content.
{"title":"The Information-Structural Status of Adjuncts: A Question-under-Discussion-Based Approach","authors":"L. Brunetti, K. Kuthy, Arndt Riester","doi":"10.4000/discours.11454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/discours.11454","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present an analysis of the information structural properties of different types of verb and sentence modifying adjuncts under a QUD (question under discussion) approach. Our study is based on naturalistic data from English, French and German containing adjuncts such as temporal, spatial, or manner prepositional phrases, as well as different types of adverbial clauses. The analysis relies on the approach by Riester et al. (2018), which identifies the (generally implicit, sometimes overt) QUD preceding each utterance of a text by means of pragmatic principles, and derives from it the information structure of the utterance. The analysis of adjuncts within this approach shows that in certain contexts, despite conveying new information, adjuncts do not answer the QUD that is answered by the sentence they syntactically depend on. We argue that these adjuncts answer a different QUD and behave as independent discourse units. As such, they have an information structure of their own and are in a rhetorical relation with their host clause. Our analysis sheds light on the similarities between adjuncts and Potts’ (2005) supplements. Both can be accounted for as independent discourse units; however, while supplements display projective behavior, adjuncts do not. Following Venhuizen et al. (2014), we ascribe this difference to their different semantic anchor (nominal vs. verbal). Our work therefore highlights a different way for an expression to be independent at a discourse level, other than being projective content.","PeriodicalId":51977,"journal":{"name":"Discours-Revue de Linguistique Psycholinguistique et Informatique","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43144569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Le travail presente vise la detection automatique des intentions des locuteurs dans les questions posees au cours de repas. Le corpus est compose de transcriptions d’echanges oraux spontanes. Nous proposons une typologie de ces intentions basee sur les travaux existants et l’analyse du corpus. Nous procedons a l’implementation d’un modele de classification automatique supervisee s’appuyant sur les donnees annotees et sur des traits linguistiques choisis, dont nous evaluons et interpretons les resultats et performances.
{"title":"Quand les questions en disent plus que les réponses : classification automatique des intentions dans les questions","authors":"Angèle Barbedette, Iris Eshkol-Taravella","doi":"10.4000/discours.11359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/discours.11359","url":null,"abstract":"Le travail presente vise la detection automatique des intentions des locuteurs dans les questions posees au cours de repas. Le corpus est compose de transcriptions d’echanges oraux spontanes. Nous proposons une typologie de ces intentions basee sur les travaux existants et l’analyse du corpus. Nous procedons a l’implementation d’un modele de classification automatique supervisee s’appuyant sur les donnees annotees et sur des traits linguistiques choisis, dont nous evaluons et interpretons les resultats et performances.","PeriodicalId":51977,"journal":{"name":"Discours-Revue de Linguistique Psycholinguistique et Informatique","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46507604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}