The Effect of Pitch Accenting on Pronoun Referent Resolution
| dc.creator | Cahn, Janet | |
| dc.date | 1995-06-18 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T09:09:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T09:09:55Z | |
| dc.description | 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. | |
| dc.description | 3 pages, uses aclap.sty. In Proceedings of the ACL, 1995 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9506017 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9506017 | |
| dc.identifier | Proceedings of the ACL, 1995. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/151209 | |
| dc.subject | Computation and Language | |
| dc.title | The Effect of Pitch Accenting on Pronoun Referent Resolution | |
| dc.type | text |