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Evidentiality, discourse prominence and grammaticalization

Studies in Language, 2023
Abstract This paper seeks to answer three questions: (1) What is the difference between grammatical and lexical indications of information source? (2) What qualifies an element for grammaticalization as an evidential? (3) How can we identify grammatical evidentials and instances of evidential grammaticalization?
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Prominence perception is dependent on phonology, semantics, and awareness of discourse

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2017
The perception of prosodic prominence is thought to be influenced by multiple competing factors. Three experiments tested the effects of phonological salience, discourse context and listener’s knowledge about the discourse on prosodic prominence judgements, using short adjective–noun phrases extracted from a corpus of spontaneous speech.
Kiwako Ito, Rory Turnbull, Shari R. Speer   +2 more
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Discourse prominence effects on 2.5-year-old children's interpretation of pronouns [PDF]

Lingua, 2007
Three experiments examined 2.5-year-olds' sensitivity to discourse structure in pronoun interpretation. Children heard simple two-character stories illustrated by pictures on two video screens. In Experiments 1 and 2, one character in each story was established as more prominent than the other in several context sentences because it was mentioned first,
Hyun-Joo Song, Cynthia Fisher
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Syntactic Prominence Effects On Discourse Processes

Journal of Memory and Language, 1993
Abstract We propose that the meaning of a text is determined in part by syntactic structures that affect the relative prominence given to the concepts in the text. This proposal was tested in four experiments; the data showed that concepts placed in syntactically prominent positions have increased accessibility in short-term memory during reading and
G. Mckoon, R. Ratcliff, G. Ward, R. Sproat   +3 more
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Definite reference and discourse prominence in Longxi Qiang

Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), 2023
Abstract This paper focuses on the uses of the definite marker - tì in Longxi Qiang, a Tibeto-Burman language. Although the selection of referring expressions made by speakers is based on referent accessibility or cognitive status, at the same time, referring expressions ...
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Prominent voices and prevalent discourses: A corporate social responsibility application

2016 Eleventh International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM), 2016
In this study we develop a simplified technique for identifying prominent voices (and characterizing prevalent discourses) using Text Data Mining around Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) issues or topics. We do this by analyzing a corpus of CSR reports produced by 7 US firms (Citi, Coca-Cola, Exxon-Mobil, General Motors, Intel, McDonald's and ...
Carlos M. Parra, Monica Chiarini Tremblay, Arturo Castellanos 0001   +2 more
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Pointing Things Out: Prominence and the Attentional State of a Discourse

2021
This chapter provides the key elements of the account of context and context-sensitivity. Like the shifty, dynamic account of context in Chapter 3, this account models context as a running record of candidate interpretations for context-sensitive items, for exmaple, demonstrative pronouns. However, by contrast, the chapter argues that context organizes
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Presence-prominence effect in multimodal eco-discourse

Journal of Argumentation in Context
Abstract The insufficient ecological awareness among the public is widely acknowledged as the fundamental cause of ecological crises. To address this issue, the present study incorporates the rhetorical concept of presence with the social psychological notion of prominence effect.
Fengju Dai, Chengyu Liu
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Perception of Word-level Prominence in Free Word Order Language Discourse

Language and Speech, 2019
This study examines the contribution of constituent order, prosody, and information structure to the perception of word-level prominence in Russian, a free word order language. Prominence perception is investigated through the analysis of prominence ratings of nominal words in two published narrative texts.
Tatiana Luchkina, Jennifer S. Cole
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Pronoun Resolution and the Influence of Syntactic and Semantic Information on Discourse Prominence

2007
Beginning with the observation that syntactic and semantic information often coincide (i.e., subjects are often agents, objects often patients), this study investigates the possibility that preference to resolve a sentence-initial pronoun to a syntactically prominent antecedent might actually be better explained in terms of preference for resolving to ...
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