Multifactor Analysis of Discourse Turn in Greek

• The present article reports on an experimental study of turn structures in telephone conversations during Greek news broadcasts. Discourse segmentation was carried out based on turn constructional units (TCUs). Turn-taking and turn- leaving alternations of TCUs were analyzed in terms of speaker’s prosodic characteristics, syntactic structures and lexical discourse markers. The results indicate that the speaker's TCU tonal onset and TCU tonal offset along with global tonal variations, as well as word order are discourse correlates of turn-taking and turn-leaving.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- General Language Studies and Linguistics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

phonetics

discourse

turn-taking

prosody

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

kon (subject category)