2.1 Disfluency or repair? Levelt's legacy 10 2.2 Holistic definitions of fluency 13 2.3
Componential approaches to fluency and disfluency 14 2.3. 1 Qualitative components of …

This paper presents an in-depth study of the semantics of the French discourse marker alors
'at that time, then, so'. Its evolution from temporal adverbial with local anaphoric meaning to …

This article presents a corpus-based contrastive study of (dis) fluency in French and English,
focusing on the clustering of discourse markers (DMs) and filled pauses (FPs) across …

The central issue raised in this volume concerns the question whether the left and right
peripheries1 (lp and rp) attract specific meanings. Is it the case that the two peripheries differ …

Over the past decades, the use of quantitative methods has become almost generalized in
all domains of linguistics. However, using these methods requires a thorough understanding …

Discourse markers have a central role in planning and repairing processes of speech
production. They relate with fluency and disfluency phenomena such as pauses, repetitions …

While discourse markers (DMs) and (dis) fluency have been extensively studied in the past
as separate phenomena, corpus-based research combining large-scale yet fine-grained …

In Modern French, parce que “because” seems to be replacing car “because, for”. This is not
a new phenomenon: the competition between these two causal conjunctions (among others) …

The aim of this contribution is to explore the identification of different types of basic discourse
units (BDUs), and the role they might fulfil in discourse production and interpretation. A …

1.1 Background Discourse marker research today still faces many terminological and
theoretical issues which restrain progress in the field, despite the multiplicity of theoretical …