Disfluencies as intra-utterance dialogue moves

Jonathan Ginzburg (1, 2) , Raquel M. Fernández (3) , Schlangen David (4)

1 CLILLAC-ARP (EA_3967) - Centre de Linguistique Inter-langues, de Lexicologie, de Linguistique Anglaise et de Corpus
2 LabEx EFL - LabEx Empirical Foundations of Linguistics
3 ILLC - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
4 Universität Bielefeld = Bielefeld University

Although disfluent speech is pervasive in spoken conversation, disfluencies have received little attention within formal theories of grammar. The majority of work on disfluent language has come from psycholinguis-tic models of speech production and comprehension and from structural approaches designed to improve performance in speech applications. In this paper, we argue for the inclusion of this phenomenon in the scope of formal grammar, and present a detailed formal account which: (a) unifies disfluencies (self-repair) with Clarification Requests, without conflating them, (b) offers a precise explication of the roles of all key components of a disflu-ency, including editing phrases and filled pauses, and (c) accounts for the possibility of self addressed questions in a disfluency.

Mots clés: Dialogue; KoS; Formal Gram-mar; Repair; Semantics; Pragmatics; Disfluency

Domaines: Sciences cognitives

Jonathan Ginzburg, Raquel M. Fernández, Schlangen David. Disfluencies as intra-utterance dialogue moves . Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014, 7 (9), pp.64. ⟨10.3765/sp.7.9⟩. ⟨hal-01126615⟩