discourse-initial discourse markers

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

i've started paying attention to these in listening to people giving
papers.  from student presentations (about summer intern projects) at
our 10/20/06 colloquium:

   All right, so this summer I...

   All right, so I worked this summer...

and from bill labov's talk here 10/26/06:

   Well, I'm going to be talking today about...

start listening!

arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)

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