%0 Journal Article
%T Linearization and Segmentation in Discourse: Introduction to the Special Issue
%A Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen
%A Wiebke Ramm
%A Liesbeth Degand
%J Discours : Revue de Linguistique, Psycholinguistique et Informatique
%D 2009
%I Universit¨¦ Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV
%R 10.4000/discours.7292
%X Like other forms of communication, language is inseparably tied to some kind of linear-sequential presentation, due to the linear-sequential nature of the media it operates on. Linearization in its turn presupposes segmentation, i.e. decisions concerning the size and type of units to be brought into a sequential order at various levels. In written and spoken language, for example, it has to be decided whether a piece of information can and should be realized as a word, a phrase, a clause, a (...
%U http://discours.revues.org/7292