One-syllable words at the beginnings of syntactic segments in spoken Czech

Abstract

The paper deals with a phenomenon frequently encountered in the syntax of spoken Czech, namely one-syllable words, mostlyu of pronominal or verbal nature (se, si, sem, ste, sme, mě , mi, mu, tě, ti, bych, bys, by...) at the beginning of syntactic segments.

Keywords

• spoken Czech
• spoken corpora
• corpus annotation
• speech segmentation
• one-syllable words at the beginning of utterances / turns in dialogue