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Title The Language into Act Theory: A Pragmatic Approach to Speech in Real-Life
Authors Emanuela Cresti, Lorenzo Gregori, Massimo Moneglia and Alessandro Panunzi
Abstract This paper briefly introduces the Language into Act Theory (L-AcT), that proposes a pragmatic framework for the corpus-based collection and analysis of spontaneous speech. The L-AcT methodology takes the utterance (i.e. the counterpart of a speech act) as the reference unit for analysis. A set of large-scale Romance corpora has been collected in accordance with the L-AcT methodology (LABLITA Corpus, C-ORAL-ROM, C-ORAL-BRASIL, Cor-DiAL). Data for each corpus can be compared across languages, since they are built using the same corpus design, which entails a set of variation parameters relevant for representing spontaneous speech and, specifically, its pragmatic variation. LABLITA-C-ORAL corpora are text/sound aligned at the utterance level. Empirical research carried out by LABLITA has verified a systematic correspondence between stretches of speech ending with a terminal prosodic break and the accomplishment of an illocutionary force, thus identifying utterances. Within the latter, a correspondence between chunks separated by non-terminal breaks and information functions has been identified. The IPIC database was created for the cross-linguistic comparison of information structure in Romance languages. With regard to the pragmatic classification of utterances, a working repertory of illocutionary types has been established, induced empirically from pragmatic and prosodic features shared in Romance corpora.
Topics Prosody, Pragmatics, Spoken Romance Corpora
Full paper The Language into Act Theory: A Pragmatic Approach to Speech in Real-Life
Bibtex @InProceedings{CRESTI18.3,
  author = {Emanuela Cresti ,Lorenzo Gregori ,Massimo Moneglia and Alessandro Panunzi},
  title = {The Language into Act Theory: A Pragmatic Approach to Speech in Real-Life},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)},
  year = {2018},
  month = {may},
  date = {7-12},
  location = {Miyazaki, Japan},
  editor = {Hanae Koiso and Patrizia Paggio},
  publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
  address = {Paris, France},
  isbn = {979-10-95546-16-0},
  language = {english}
  }
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