The Effect of Pitch Accenting on Pronoun Referent Resolution

Details The Effect of Pitch Accenting on Pronoun Referent Resolution The Effect of Pitch Accenting on Pronoun Referent Resolution

1995-06-18

arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9506017v1

Proceedings of the ACL, 1995.

Computer Science

Computation and Language

3 pages, uses aclap.sty. In Proceedings of the ACL, 1995

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By strictest interpretation, theories of both centering and intonational meaning fail to predict the existence of pitch accented pronominals. Yet they occur felicitously in spoken discourse. To explain this, I emphasize the dual functions served by pitch accents, as markers of both propositional (semantic/pragmatic) and attentional salience. This distinction underlies my proposals about the attentional consequences of pitch accents when applied to pronominals, in particular, that while most pitch accents may weaken or reinforce a cospecifier's status as the center of attention, a contrastively stressed pronominal may force a shift, even when contraindicated by textual features.

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