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On discourse-semantic prominence, syntactic prominence, and prominence of expression: The case of Movima

open access: yesJournal of Pragmatics, 2019
International audienceThis study investigates the relationship between three types of linguistic prominence. The first type, discourse-semantic prominence, encompasses features pertaining to a discourse referent at a given moment, like topicality, person,
Katharina Haude
exaly   +5 more sources

Relating agent prominence to discourse prominence: DO-clefts in German [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistics, 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
exaly   +5 more sources

Introduction to prominence in discourse

open access: yesJournal of Pragmatics, 2019
This Special Issue on prominence in discourse originated from collaborative research at the University of Cologne within the research center Prominence in Language that considers prominence an organizational principle of language that operates at all ...
Klaus von Heusinger, Petra Schumacher
exaly   +4 more sources

A prominence-based account of temporal discourse structure

open access: yesLingua, 2018
In this article, we develop an account of temporal discourse structure that is composed of three different levels and based on the notion of prominence.
Martin Becker, Jakob Egetenmeyer
exaly   +4 more sources

On the notion of salience in spoken discourse - prominence cues shaping discourse structure and comprehension [PDF]

open access: yesTIPA Travaux Interdisciplinaires Sur La Parole Et Le Langage, 2014
National audienceUnderstanding 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 ...
Simone Falk
exaly   +6 more sources

Discourse prominence: Definition and application

open access: yesJournal of Pragmatics, 2019
Abstract We argue that prominence is a structure-building principle throughout the grammar of languages, and in particular for building discourse representations. We provide an explicit characterization of prominence as a) relational, b) dynamic, and c) as an attractor of operations.
Klaus von Heusinger, Petra Schumacher
exaly   +3 more sources

Semantic incorporation and discourse prominence: Experimental evidence from English pronoun resolution

open access: yesJournal of Pragmatics, 2021
The semantic incorporation of nouns into predicates, like give a hug, is not morphologically marked in English, and how syntactic incorporation strategies like light verb constructions influence the discourse-prominence structure of an utterance has not yet been studied systematically.
Eva Wittenberg, Andreas Trotzke
exaly   +3 more sources

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