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Givenness hierarchy theoretic sequencing of robot task instructions [PDF]
Frontiers in Robotics and AIIntroductionWhen collaborative robots teach human teammates new tasks, they must carefully determine the order to explain different parts of the task. In robotics, this problem is especially challenging, due to the situated and dynamic nature of robot ...
Zhao Han +6 more
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Laboratory Phonology, 2023 It is well-established for assertions that the information-structural status of referents influences prosodic prominence: givenness reduces and contrastive focus increases prominence.
Heiko Seeliger, Sophie Repp
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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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Discourse and Form Constraints on Licensing Object-First Sentences in German
Languages, 2021 In German, the subject usually precedes the object (SO order), but, under certain discourse conditions, the object is allowed to precede the subject (OS order).
Markus Bader, Yvonne Portele
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Givenness and Stress Rejection
Languages, 2022 This paper addresses the impact of givenness on phrasal stress assignment in German. It has been observed for English that nuclear stress is rejected on given elements that are part of the focused material if another focused word is available to bear ...
Fabian Schubö
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Passive in Kazym Khanty and the Interaction of Givenness, Topicality and Animacy [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2023 This paper concerns the active/passive voice alternation in Kazym Khanty. According to the existing literature, the use of passive in Khanty is conditioned by information structure.
Nikita Muravyev
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Husserl et la phénoménologie de la donation
Methodos, 2009 This essay aims to show how the notion of plasticityarticulates the Husserlian manner of engaging the problematic of givenness. For this purpose, it interprets the transition from static to genetic phenomenology as a progression from the analysis of the ...
Saulius Geniusas
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Deconstructing information structure
Glossa, 2020 The paper argues that a core part of what is traditionally referred to as ‘information structure’ can be deconstructed into genuine morphosyntactic features that are visible to syntactic operations, contribute to discourse-related expressive meanings ...
Angelika Kratzer, Elisabeth Selkirk
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Modelling the interplay of multiple cues in prosodic focus marking
Laboratory Phonology, 2017 Focus marking is an important function of prosody in many languages. While many phonological accounts concentrate on fundamental frequency (F0), studies have established several additional cues to information structure.
Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Anja Arnhold
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The Representation of Reference Cognitive Status in Persian-speaking Autistic Children’s Narrative Discourse Based on Givenness Hierarchy [PDF]
Ravānshināsī-i Afrād-i Istis̠nāyī, 2019 Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), as a developmental-neuro disorder, is a disorder that creates impairments in the cognitive performances, such as memory, communication ability and language.
Setareh Mojahedi Rezaeian +3 more
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