The discursive and prosodic properties of the French connector ‘mais’ in conversational interaction

The journal Discourse Processes has just published a new study in the field of conversational analysis..

The journal Discourse Processes has just published a study in the field of conversational analysis, the result of collaboration between Marie Kolenberg of KU Leuven and our colleagues Cristel Portes, Stéphane Rauzy and Roxane Bertrand of the LPL:

Reference: M. Kolenberg, C. Portes, S. Rauzy, R. Bertrand. An underexplored use of connector “mais” in French conversation: discursive and prosodic correlates of the overbid use. Discourse Processes, 2025.

Abstract on publisher's website: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0163853X.2025.2564615?src=

Full text article: https://hal.science/hal-05326629v1

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