Conférence du Pr Nikolaus Himmelmann (Univ Cologne)

13 mars 2024 --16h30 - 18h00

Taking spoken language seriously

Campus CNRS, 7 rue Guy Môquet 94800 Villejuif.

One word or two? Discusses typical problems in deciding how to represent word-like units in transcripts. Do native speakers in non-literate societies have ideas about word-like units? Where do problems of word-delimitation typically arise? Do prosodic words have priority over grammatical words (assuming that this is a useful distinction)?