Accentuation, Uncertainty and Exhaustivity - Towards a Model of Pragmatic Focus Interpretation
- This paper presents a model of pragmatic focus interpretation that is assumed to be part of a complete language comprehension model and that is inspired by Levelt's language processing model. The model is derived from our empirical data on the role of accentuation, prosodic indicators of uncertainty and context for pragmatic focus interpretation. In its present state, the model is restricted to these data, but nevertheless generates predictions.
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| Author: | Charlotte Wollermann, Ulrich Schade, Bernhard FisseniGND, Bernhard SchröderGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-81954 |
| URL: | http://www.isle.illinois.edu/speechprosody2010/program.php |
| ISBN: | 978-0-557-51931-6 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2010, Workshop on Phonetics, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, & Pragmatics. Chicago, Illinois, USA, 11-14 May 2010 |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois |
| Place of publication: | Chicago |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2010 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2018/11/08 |
| Publicationstate: | Zweitveröffentlichung |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Tag: | context; pragmatic focus; prosody; uncertainty; utterance interpretation |
| GND Keyword: | Empirische Linguistik; Fokus <Linguistik>; Pragmatik; Prosodie |
| Page Number: | 4 |
| Note: | Hinweis der Konferenzveranstalter zur Zitierweise: "Citation of Speech Prosody papers is very slightly non-standard, in that, during publication, each paper has been treated as if it were a separate volume." (http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/stylefiles.php) Der folgende Beitrag entspricht demnach dem Volume "Speech Prosody 2010 100063:1-4" |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Pragmalinguistik / Kommunikationsforschung |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported |