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Relating agent prominence to discourse prominence: DO-clefts in German [PDF]
Linguistics, 2022 The article investigates the hypothesis that prominence phenomena on different levels of linguistic structure are systematically related to each other.
Klaus von Heusinger +2 more
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On the notion of salience in spoken discourse - prominence cues shaping discourse structure and comprehension [PDF]
TIPA Travaux Interdisciplinaires Sur La Parole Et Le Langage, 2014 Understanding spoken discourse is a complex task that implies monitoring and memorizing relations between important discourse units. Discourse comprehension has therefore been described as a process entailing a continuous competition between attention ...
Simone Falk
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Discourse Prominence and Antecedent Mis-Retrieval during Native and Non-Native Pronoun Resolution
Discours, 2022 Previous studies on non-native (L2) anaphor resolution suggest that L2 comprehenders are guided more strongly by discourse-level cues compared to native (L1) comprehenders.
Claudia Felser
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Discours, 2020 Free indirect discourse (FID) is a kind of speech or thought representation that lacks specific marking. The entity to whom the speech or thought is attributed (the perspectival center) has been shown to be a contextually available prominent protagonist (
Jakob Egetenmeyer
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Using prosody to infer discourse prominence in cochlear-implant users and normal-hearing listeners [PDF]
Cognition, 2017 Rochelle S. Newman +2 more
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Markers of Prominence in Persian General Practitioners’ Books and Online Medical Journals [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2022 Giving certain elements more significance than others in the same context is called prominence. This study aims at identifying and comparing markers of focal and thematic prominence in Persian general practitioners’ books (GPBs) and Persian online ...
Seddigheh Zeynali Dastuyi +3 more
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Can Polish -no/-to Demote Discourse-Prominent Referents? Corpus Data vs. Acceptability
Discours, 2023 Most human impersonal constructions can either refer to demoted referents or demote a previously discourse-prominent referent. According to Bunčić (2019), however, the Polish ‑no/‑to construction cannot be used to demote a topical referent.
Iga Kościołek, Daniel Bunčić
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Effect of evaluative expressions on two types of demonstrative pronouns in German
Glossa, 2023 We propose a unified prominence-based account of the two paradigms of demonstrative pronouns in German: the die- and diese-paradigm. The two types of demonstrative pronouns have been shown to have similar referential preferences — avoiding the most ...
Petra B. Schumacher +2 more
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An experimental study on the discourse properties of Romanian direct objects [PDF]
Studii de Lingvistica, 2022 Differential Object Marking (DOM) and Clitic Doubling (CD) have been argued to signal prominence of the marked direct object (DO) along various dimensions, such as animacy, referentiality, topicality, affectedness.
Alina Tigău
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Glossa, 2022 The present paper reports two acceptability-rating experiments and a supporting corpus study for Polish that tested the acceptability and frequency of five verb classes (WATCH, SEE, HATE, KNOW, EXHIBIT), entailing different sets of agentivity features ...
Beatrice Primus † +2 more
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