Chapter 1: Segmentation of spoken discourse  

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Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Discourse, vision, and cognition, page 1-17.
Topik: Spontaneous Speech: Spoken Discourse
Fulltext: Chapter 1 segmentation of spoken discourse.pdf (249.32KB)

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When we listen to spontaneous speech, it is easy to think that the utterances form a continuous stream of coherent thought. Not until we write down and analyse the speech, do we realise that it consists of a series of small units. The speech flow is segmented, containing many repetitions, stops, hesitations and pauses. Metaphorically one could say that speech progresses in small discontinuous steps. In fact, it is the listeners who creatively ‘fill in’ what is missing or ‘filter out’ what is superfluous and in this way construe ‘continuous’ speech. The stepwise structure of speech can give us many clues about cognitive processes. It suggests units for planning, production, perception and comprehension. In other words, the flow of speech reflects the flow of thoughts.

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