Chapter 8
Narrative discourse segmentation in clinical linguistics
Mira B. Bergelson | National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
This chapter deals with segmentation, definition of basic units
and annotation of the first corpus of Russian narratives by individuals with brain damage –
people with aphasia and right hemisphere damage – and neurologically healthy speakers. We
show that parameters such as pause length and intonation contours cannot be used for
segmentation of impaired speech. Instead, they use syntactic criteria for the identification
of the basic, or – as they are called in this paper – elementary discourse
units (EDUs). The Russian CliPS (Clinical Pear Stories) corpus contains
multi-layer annotation of audio- and video-recordings, performed on micro- and
macro-linguistic level, and can be used as a source for qualitative and quantitative
research on various aspects of speech in aphasia and right hemisphere damage.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 1.1Narrative discourse and segmentation
- 1.2Challenges for segmentation of pathological speech
- 2.Russian CliPS corpus
- 2.1Speakers
- 2.2Procedure
- 2.3Annotation
- 3.Segmentation in the Russian CliPS
- 3.1Basic speech units
- 3.1.1Segmentation criteria
- 3.1.2Basic unit size
- 3.2Macrolevel segmentation
- 3.2.1Interaction markers
- 3.2.2Scenes
- 3.2.3Segmentation criteria
- 3.2.4Analysis
- 4.Conclusion
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Acknowledgements
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Notes
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References