Editing Phrases

Ye Tian (1) , Claire Beyssade (2) , Yannick Mathieu (1) , Jonathan Ginzburg (3, 4)

1 LLF UMR7110 - Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle
2 IJN - Institut Jean-Nicod
3 CLILLAC-ARP (EA_3967) - Centre de Linguistique Inter-langues, de Lexicologie, de Linguistique Anglaise et de Corpus
4 LabEx EFL - LabEx Empirical Foundations of Linguistics

Disfluencies are viewed as a performance phenomenon in most formal grammatical treatments. In this paper we provide evidence for the need to integrate disfluencies in the competence grammar. We do this by considering the properties of editing phrases (EPs). We study their distribution in the American English corpus Switchboard and the French corpus Rhapsodie. We show that English and French exhibit various distributional differences, as expected from a grammatical phenomenon. We sketch a treatment for distinct classes of editing phrases.

Domains: Cognitive science; Linguistics

Ye Tian, Claire Beyssade, Yannick Mathieu, Jonathan Ginzburg. Editing Phrases. 19th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 2015, Gothenburg, Sweden. ⟨hal-01371397⟩