Self-addressed questions in disfluencies

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

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

The paper considers self-addressed queries – queries speakers address to themselves in the aftermath of a filled pause. We study their distribution in the BNC and show that such queries show signs of sensitivity to the syntactic/semantic type of the sub-utterance they follow. We offer a formal model that explains the coherence of such queries.

Domaines: Linguistique

Jonathan Ginzburg, Raquel Fernández, David Schlangen. Self-addressed questions in disfluencies. DiSS 2013: The 6th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, 2013, Stockholm, Sweden. ⟨hal-01138037⟩