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1.1 Fluency in time and space |
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1.2 Background and objectives |
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4 | (1) |
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Chapter 2 Definitions and corpus-based approaches to fluency and disfluency |
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2.1 Disfluency or repair? Levelt's legacy |
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10 | (3) |
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2.2 Holistic definitions of fluency |
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13 | (1) |
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2.3 Componential approaches to fluency and disfluency |
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14 | (8) |
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2.3.1 Qualitative components of perception |
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2.3.2 Quantitative components of production |
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16 | (4) |
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2.3.3 Gotz's qualitative-quantitative approach |
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20 | (2) |
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2.4 Synthesis: Definition adopted in this work |
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22 | (1) |
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2.5 A usage-based account of (dis)fluency |
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23 | (7) |
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2.5.1 Key notions in usage-based linguistics |
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2.5.2 From schemas to sequences of fluencemes |
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24 | (2) |
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2.5.3 Variation in context(s) |
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26 | (2) |
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2.5.4 Accessing fluency through frequency |
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28 | (2) |
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2.6 Summary and hypotheses |
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30 | (3) |
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Chapter 3 Definitions and corpus-based approaches to discourse markers |
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33 | (22) |
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3.1 From connectives to pragmatic markers: Defining the continuum |
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34 | (3) |
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3.2 Discourse markers in contrastive linguistics |
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37 | (3) |
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3.3 Models of discourse marker functions |
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40 | (7) |
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3.3.1 Discourse relations in the Penn Discourse TreeBank 2.0 |
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40 | (3) |
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3.3.2 The many scopes of DM functions |
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43 | (4) |
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3.4 "Fluent" vs. "disfluent" discourse markers |
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47 | (5) |
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3.4.1 DM features and (dis)fluency |
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47 | (1) |
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3.4.2 Previous corpus-based accounts of DMs and disfluency |
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48 | (4) |
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3.5 Summary and hypotheses |
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52 | (3) |
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Chapter 4 Corpus and method |
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55 | (26) |
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55 | (6) |
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55 | (2) |
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4.1.2 Comparable corpus design |
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57 | (2) |
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4.1.3 Corpus structure in situational features |
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59 | (2) |
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4.2 Discourse marker annotation |
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61 | (10) |
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4.2.1 Identification of DM tokens |
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62 | (2) |
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4.2.2 Functional taxonomy |
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64 | (2) |
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4.2.3 Three-fold positioning system |
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66 | (3) |
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69 | (1) |
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4.2.5 Annotation procedure |
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70 | (1) |
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4.3 Disfluency annotation |
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71 | (8) |
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4.3.2 Compound fluencemes |
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4.3.3 Related phenomena and diacritics |
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4.3.4 Annotation procedure |
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4.3.5 Macro-labels of sequences |
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Chapter 5 Portraying the category of discourse markers |
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5.1 Distribution across languages and registers |
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81 | (8) |
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5.1.2 The status of tag questions |
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5.1.4 A greater effect of register over language? |
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5.1.5 DM expressions in contrast |
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5.1.6 Diversity hypothesis |
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5.2 Position of DMs: Initiality in question |
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5.2.2 Utterance-initial DMs |
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91 | (2) |
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93 | (4) |
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5.2.5 Interim summary on position |
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5.3 Domains and functions: Frequency and diversity |
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98 | (9) |
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107 | (4) |
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5.3.3 Double domains and functions |
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111 | (2) |
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5.4 Integrating syntax and pragmatics |
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113 | (6) |
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119 | (6) |
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5.5.1 Co-occurrence across languages and registers |
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120 | (2) |
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5.5.2 Co-occurrence across positions |
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122 | (2) |
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5.5.3 Integrated statistical model of co-occurrence |
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124 | (1) |
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125 | (1) |
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5.7 Interim discussion: The potential of bottom-up research |
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126 | (3) |
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Chapter 6 Disfluency in interviews |
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129 | (20) |
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129 | (1) |
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6.2 Fluenceme rates in English and French |
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130 | (6) |
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131 | (2) |
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6.2.3 Radio vs. face-to-face interviews |
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133 | (3) |
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6.3 Clustering tendencies |
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136 | (3) |
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6.3.1 Isolation vs. combination |
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6.3.2 Most frequent clusters |
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137 | (1) |
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138 | (1) |
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139 | (7) |
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6.4.1 Frequency and structural complexity |
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139 | (3) |
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6.4.2 Frequency and sequence length |
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142 | (4) |
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146 | (3) |
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Chapter 7 The (dis)fluency of discourse markers |
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149 | (28) |
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7.1 Sequence types across registers |
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149 | (10) |
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150 | (2) |
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7.1.2 "Sequence category" |
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152 | (4) |
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7.1.3 "Internal structure" |
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156 | (2) |
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7.1.4 Sequence-specific DMs |
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158 | (1) |
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7.2 Sequence types across DM features |
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159 | (7) |
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7.2.1 Disfluency and functional domain |
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159 | (3) |
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7.2.2 Disfluency, domain and position |
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162 | (3) |
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7.2.3 Synthesis of variables |
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165 | (1) |
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7.3 Potentially Disfluent Functions |
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166 | (8) |
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7.3.1 PDFs across registers |
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167 | (2) |
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7.3.2 PDFs and sequence types |
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169 | (2) |
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7.3.3 PDFs and sequence structure |
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171 | (3) |
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174 | (1) |
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7.5 Interim discussion: The "silence" of corpora |
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175 | (2) |
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Chapter 8 Discourse markers in repairs |
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8.1 Previous approaches to repair |
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178 | (9) |
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8.1.1 Reformulation and its markers: The French classics |
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178 | (2) |
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8.1.2 Contrastive perspectives on reformulation markers |
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180 | (4) |
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8.1.3 From reformulation to repair: Levelt's (1983) typology of repair |
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184 | (2) |
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8.1.4 Research questions and hypotheses |
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186 | (1) |
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187 | (4) |
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188 | (1) |
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188 | (2) |
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8.2.3 Relation to annotated fluencemes |
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190 | (1) |
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8.2.4 Intra-annotator agreement |
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191 | (1) |
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8.3 Repair categories across languages |
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191 | (2) |
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193 | (7) |
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8.4.1 Position of the DMs |
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193 | (2) |
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195 | (1) |
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8.4.3 Potentially Disfluent Functions in repairs |
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196 | (2) |
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8.4.4 Specification and enumeration |
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198 | (2) |
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8.5 DMs and modified repetitions |
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200 | (1) |
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201 | (2) |
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8.7 Interim discussion: Low quantity, high quality? |
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203 | (4) |
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207 | (26) |
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9.1 Summary of the main findings |
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207 | (3) |
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210 | (2) |
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9.3 Implications and research avenues |
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212 | (3) |
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215 | (18) |
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Appendix 1 Discourse markers by register |
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233 | (2) |
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Appendix 2 List of discourse markers in DisFrEn and their functions |
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235 | (10) |
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Appendix 3 List of functions in DisFrEn and their discourse markers |
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245 | (4) |
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Appendix 4 Top-five most frequent functions by register in DisFrEn |
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Index |
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