The effects of addressee attention on prosodic prominence

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 48-56

  Rosa, Elise C ^a   Finch, Kayla H ^a   Bergeson, Molly ^a   Arnold, Jennifer E ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

attention; audience design; prosody

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MASS COMMUNICATION; ORAL COMMUNICATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84931268609     PISSN: 23273798     EISSN: 23273801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2013.772213     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. J.E.Arnold, (1998). Reference form and discourse patterns. Dissertation: Stanford University.
2. J.E.Arnold, (2001). The effects of thematic roles on pronoun use and frequency of reference. Discourse Processes, 31(2), 137–162. doi: 10.1207/S15326950DP3102_02
3. J.E.Arnold, (2008). Reference production: Production-internal and addressee-oriented processes. Language and Cognitive Processes, 23, 495–527. doi: 10.1080/01690960801920099
4. J.E.Arnold, (2010). How speakers refer: The role of accessibility. Language and Linguistic Compass, 4(4), 187–203. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2010.00193.x
5. J.E.Arnold,, C.Hudson Kam,, & M.K.Tanenhaus, (2007). If you say thee uh- you're describing something hard: The on-line attribution of disfluency during reference comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 914–930. doi: 10.1037/0278-7393.33.5.914
6. J.E.Arnold,, J.M.Kahn,, & G.Pancani, (2012). Audience design affects acoustic reduction via production facilitation. Psychological Bulletin & Review, 19, 505–512. doi: 10.3758/s13423-012-0233-y
7. J.E.Arnold,, M.K.Tanenhaus,, R.J.Altmann,, & M.Fagnano, (2004). The old and thee, uh, new. Psychological Science, 15, 578–582. doi: 10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.00723.x
8. J.E.Arnold,, & D.Watson, (2012). Synthesizing meaning and processing approaches to prosody: Performance matters. Manuscript submitted for publication.
9. D.Balota,, & J.Chumbley, (1985). The locus of word-frequency effects in the pronunciation task: Lexical access and/or production? Journal of Memory and Language, 24(1), 89–106. doi: 10.1016/0749-596X(85)90017-8
10. E.G.Bard,, A.H.Anderson,, M.Aylett,, G.Doherty-Sneddon,, & A.Newlands, (2000). Controlling the intelligibility of referring expressions in dialogue. Journal of Memory and Language, 42(1), 1–22. doi: 10.1006/jmla.1999.2667
11. E.G.Bard,, & M.Aylett, (2005). Referential form, duration, and modelling the listener in spoken dialogue. In J.Trueswell & M.Tanenhaus (Eds.), Approaches to studying world-situated language use: Bridging the language-as-product and language-as-action traditions (pp. 173–191). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
12. A.Bell,, J.M.Brenier,, M.Gregory,, C.Girand,, & D.Jurafsky, (2009). Predictability effects on durations of content and function words in conversational English. Journal of Memory and Language, 60(1), 92–111. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2008.06.003
13. A.Bell,, D.Jurafsky,, E.Fosler-Lussier,, C.Girand,, M.Gregory,, & D.Gildea, (2003). Effects of disfluencies, predictability, and utterance position on word form variation in English conversation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113, 1001–1024. doi: 10.1121/1.1534836
14. M.Breen,, E.Fedorenko,, M.Wagner,, & E.Gibson, (2010). Acoustic correlates of information structure. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25, 1044–1098. doi: 10.1080/01690965.2010.504378
15. S.E.Brennan,, & H.H.Clark, (1996). Conceptual pacts and lexical choice in conversation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 22, 482–1493. doi: 10.1037/0278-7393.22.6.1482
16. G.Brown, (1983). Prosodic structure and the given/new distinction. In A.Cutler & D.R.Ladd (Eds.), Prosody: Models and measurements (pp. 67–77). Springer: Berlin.
17. S.Brown-Schmidt, (2009). The role of executive function in perspective taking during online language comprehension. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 893–900. doi: 10.3758/PBR.16.5.893
18. S.Brown-Schmidt,, & M.K.Tanenhaus, (2006). Watching the eyes when talking about size: An investigation of message formulation and utterance planning. Journal of Memory and Language, 54, 592–609. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2005.12.008
19. W.Chafe, (1976). Givenness, contrastiveness, definiteness, subjects, topics and point of view. In C.Li (Ed.), Subject and topic (pp. 25–55). New York: Academic Press.
20. W.Chafe, (1987). Cognitive constraints on information flow. In R.Tomlin (Ed.), Coherence and grounding in discourse (pp. 21–51). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
21. A.C.Christodoulou, (2012). Variation in word duration and planning (Ph.D. dissertation). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
22. H.H.Clark, (1996). Using language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
23. H.H.Clark,, & J.E.Fox Tree, (2002). Using uh and um in spontaneous speaking. Cognition, 84(1), 73–111. doi: 10.1016/S0010-0277(02)00017-3
24. H.H.Clark,, & M.A.Krych, (2004). Speaking while monitoring addressees for understanding. Journal of Memory and Language, 50(1), 62–81. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2003.08.004
25. H.H.Clark,, & T.Wasow, (1998). Repeating words in spontaneous speech. Cognitive Psychology, 37, 201–242. doi: 10.1006/cogp.1998.0693
26. S.Gahl,, & S.Garnsey, (2004). Knowledge of grammar, knowledge of usage: Syntactic probabilities affect pronunciation variation. Language, 80, 748–775. doi: 10.1353/lan.2004.0185
27. A.Galati,, & S.E.Brennan, (2010). Attenuating information in spoken communication: For the speaker, or for the addressee? Journal of Memory and Language, 62(1), 35–51. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2009.09.002
28. K.S.Gorman,, W.Gegg-Harrison,, C.R.Marsh,, & M.K.Tanenhaus, (2012). What's learned together stays together: Speakers’ choice of referring expression reflects shared experience. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. Epub ahead of print.
29. J.Gundel,, N.Hedberg,, & R.Zacharski, (1993). Cognitive status and the form of referring expressions in discourse. Language, 69, 274–307. doi: 10.2307/416535
30. M.A.K.Halliday, (1967). Intonation and grammar in British English. The Hague: Mouton.
31. D.Heller,, K.S.Gorman,, M.K.Tanenhaus, (2012). To name or to describe: Shared knowledge affects referential form. Topics in Cognitive Science, 4(2), 290–305.
32. W.S.Horton,, & B.Keysar, (1996). When do speakers take into account common ground? Cognition, 59(1), 91–117. doi: 10.1016/0010-0277(96)81418-1
33. D.Jurafsky,, A.Bell,, M.Gregory,, & W.Raymond, (2001). Probabilistic relations between words: Evidence from reduction in lexical production. In J.Bybee & P.Hopper (Eds.), Frequency and the emergence of linguistic structure, (pp. 229–254). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
34. J.Kahn,, & J.E.Arnold, (2012). A processing-centered look at the contribution of givenness to durational reduction. Journal of Memory and Language, 67(3), 311–325.
35. J.Kahn,, & J.E.Arnold, (2012). Speaker-internal processes drive durational reduction. Manuscript submitted for publication.
36. A.K.Kuhlen,, & S.E.Brennan, (2010). Anticipating distracted addressees: How speakers' expectations and addressees' feedback influence storytelling. Discourse Processes, 47, 567–587. doi: 10.1080/01638530903441339
37. R.Ladd, (1996). Intonational phonology. Cambridge: University Press.
38. T.Q.Lam,, & D.G.Watson, (2010). Repetition is easy: Why repeated referents have reduced prominence. Memory & Cognition, 38, 1137–1146. doi: 10.3758/MC.38.8.1137
39. H.Lane,, & B.Tranel, (1971). The Lombard sign and the role of hearing in speech. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 14, 677–709.
40. B.Lindblom, (1990). Exploring phonetic variation: A sketch of the H and H theory. In W.J.Hardcastle & A.Marchal (Eds.), Speech production and speech modeling (pp. 403–439). Dordrecht: Kluwer.
41. M.Pasupathi,, L.M.Stallworth,, & K.Murdoch, (1998). How what we tell becomes what we know: Listener effects on speakers' long-term memory for events. Discourse Processes, 26(1), 1–25. doi: 10.1080/01638539809545035
42. E.C.Rosa,, & J.E.Arnold, (2011). The role of attention in choice of referring expression. In L.Carlson, C.Hoelscher & T.F.Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd annual conference of the cognitive science society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
43. D.Sityaev, (2000). The relationship between accentuation and information status of discourse referents: A corpus-based study. UCL Working Papers in Linguistics (12).
44. J.J.Venditti,, & J.Hirschberg, (2003). Intonation and discourse processing. Proceedings of ICPhS 2003, Barcelona, pp. 107–114.
45. D.G.Watson,, J.E.Arnold,, & M.K.Tanenhaus, (2008). Tic tac TOE: Effects of predictability and importance on acoustic prominence in language production. Cognition, 106, 156–1557. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.06.009