The Effect of Pitch Accenting on Pronoun Referent Resolution
<|reference_start|>The Effect of Pitch Accenting on Pronoun Referent Resolution: By strictest interpretation, theories of both centering and intonational meaning fail to predict the existence of pitch accented pronominals. Yet they occur felicitously in spoken discourse. To explain this, I emphasize the dual functions served by pitch accents, as markers of both propositional (semantic/pragmatic) and attentional salience. This distinction underlies my proposals about the attentional consequences of pitch accents when applied to pronominals, in particular, that while most pitch accents may weaken or reinforce a cospecifier's status as the center of attention, a contrastively stressed pronominal may force a shift, even when contraindicated by textual features.<|reference_end|>
@article{cahn1995the,
    title={The Effect of Pitch Accenting on Pronoun Referent Resolution},
    author={Janet Cahn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)},
    journal={Proceedings of the ACL, 1995.},
    year={1995},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cmp-lg/9506017},
    primaryClass={cmp-lg cs.CL}
}