Accessibility is no alternative to alternatives
| Autor: | Michael Wagner, Jeffrey Klassen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Linguistics and Language
Computer science business.industry Cognitive Neuroscience Contrast (statistics) Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Tacit assumption computer.software_genre Language and Linguistics Focus (linguistics) Range (mathematics) Salient Artificial intelligence Set (psychology) business computer Natural language processing Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 30:212-233 |
| ISSN: | 2327-3801 2327-3798 |
| Popis: | Linguistic constituents that encode salient information are often prosodically reduced. Recent studies have presented evidence that higher contextual accessibility of referents results in lower prosodic prominence. Accounts of reduction in terms of accessibility set out to explain a range of phenomena that include those that are in the domain of linguistic theories of focus and givenness. The tacit assumption is that more general and independently motivated accessibility factors will be able to supplant the more specialised grammatical accounts of prosodic prominence. This paper reviews previous results and finds that existing accessibility accounts cannot explain a range of data easily captured by the alternatives theory of focus, and that various experimental studies motivating the accessibility view actually fail to distinguish between the two accounts. New experimental data are presented that tease the effects of accessibility and linguistic focus apart. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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