What makes aword contrastive? Prosodic, semantic and pragmatic perspectives

Where Prosody Meets Pragmatics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 53-77

  Calhoun, Sasha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941264345     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1163/9789004253223_004     Document Type: Chapter

References (69)

1. Allerton, D. (1978). ''The notion of givenness, and its relations to presupposition and to theme''. Lingua 44: 133-168.
2. Atlas, J. D. (2004). ''Presupposition'', in L. Horn and G. Ward (eds.), The handbook of pragmatics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 29-52.
3. Ayers, G. (1996). ''Nuclear accent types and prominence: Some psycholinguistic experiments'', Ph.D. Thesis, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
4. Badino, L. and R. A. Clark (2008). ''Automatic labeling of contrastive word pairs from spontaneous spoken English'', 2008 IEEE/ACL Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Goa, India.
5. Bard, E., A. Anderson, C. Sotillo, M. Aylett, G. Doherty-Sneddon and A. Newlands (2000). ''Controlling the intelligibility of referring expressions in dialogue''. Journal of Memory and Language 42 (1): 1-22.
6. Bartels, C. and J. Kingston (1994). ''Salient pitch cues in the perception of contrastive focus'', in R. van der Sandt (ed.), Focus and natural language processing. Vol. 1. IBM Working Papers, Heidelberg, 1-10.
7. Batliner, A., W. Oppenrieder, E. Nöth and G. Stallwitz (1991). The intonational marking of focus structure: Wishful thinking or hard fact? Proceedings of ICPhS, Aix-en-Provence, France, 278-281.
8. Baumann, S. and M. Grice (2006). ''The intonation of accessibility''. Journal of Pragmatics 38 (10): 1636-1657. Special Issue 'Prosody and Pragmatics'.
9. Beckman, M. and J. Hirschberg (1999). The ToBI annotation conventions. Available at: http://www.ling.ohiostate.edu/Btobi/ame_tobi/annotation_conventions.html
10. Boersma, P. and D. Weenink (2008). Praat: Doing phonetics by computer. Available at: http://www.praat.org
11. Bolinger, D. (1965). ''Pitch accent and sentence rhythm'', in I. Abe and T. Kanekiyo (eds.), Forms of English: Accent, morpheme and order. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 139-180.
12. Bolinger, D. (1972). ''Accent is predictable (if you're a mind reader)''. Language 49: 633-644.
13. Buránǒvá, E., E. Hajicǒvá and P. Sgall (2000). ''Tagging of very large Corpora: Topic-focus articulation'', Proceedings of COLING Conference, Saarbrücken, Germany, 278-284.
14. Büring, D. (2006). ''Focus projection and default prominence'', in V. Molnár and S. Winkler (eds.), The architecture of focus. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter, 321-346.
15. Calhoun, S. (2006). ''Information structure and the prosodic structure of English: A probabilistic relationship'', Ph.D. Thesis, University of Edinburgh.
16. Calhoun, S. (2007). ''Predicting focus through prominence structure'', Proceedings of ISCLP, Antwerp, Belgium.
17. Calhoun, S. (submitted a). The centrality of metrical structure in signaling information structure: A probabilistic perspective. Language. Submitted.
18. Calhoun, S. (submitted b). How does informativeness affect prosodic prominence? Language and Cognitive Processes. Special Issue 'Prosody'. Submitted.
19. Calhoun, S., J. Carletta, J. Brenier, N. Mayo, D. Jurafsky, M. Steedman and D. Beaver (to appear). ''The NXTformat Switchboard Corpus: A rich resource for investigating the syntax, semantics, pragmatics and prosody of dialogue''. Language Resources and Evaluation Journal.
20. Carletta, J. (1996). ''Assessing agreement on classification tasks: The kappa statistic''. Computational Linguistics 22 (2): 249-254.
21. Chen, K. and M. Hasegawa-Johnson (2004). ''An automatic prosody labeling system using ANN-based syntactic-prosodic model and GMM-based acoustic-prosodic model'', Proceedings of ICASSP, Montreal, Canada, 509-512.
22. Eady, S. and W. Cooper (1986). ''Speech intonation and focus location in matched statements and questions''. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 80 (2): 402-415.
23. Godfrey, J., E. Holliman and J. McDaniel (1992). ''SWITCHBOARD: Telephone speech corpus for research and development'', Proceedings of ICASSP, San Francisco, CA, 517-520.
24. Grice, M., D. R. Ladd and A. Arvaniti (2000). ''On the place of phrase accents in intonational phonology''. Phonology 17 (2): 143-185.
25. Gundel, J. and T. Fretheim (2004). ''Topic and focus'', in L. Horn and G. Ward (eds.), The handbook of pragmatics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 175-196.
26. Gussenhoven, C. (1983). ''Focus, mode and the nucleus''. Journal of Linguistics 19: 377-417.
27. Halliday, M. (1968). ''Notes on transitivity and theme in English: Part 3''. Journal of Linguistics 4: 179-215.
28. Hayes, B. (1995). Metrical stress theory. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
29. Hedberg, N. and J. M. Sosa (2007). ''The prosody of topic and focus in spontaneous English dialogue'', in C. Lee, M. Gordon and D. Büring (eds.), Topic and focus: Cross-linguistic perspectives on meaning and intonation. Dordrecht: Springer, 101-120.
30. Hirschberg, J. (1993). ''Pitch accent in context: Predicting intonational prominence from text''. Artificial Intelligence 63: 305-340.
31. Hocking, R. R. (2003). Methods and applications of linear models: Regression and the analysis of variance. 2nd Edition. New York: Wiley.
32. Jackendoff, R. S. (1972). Semantic interpretation in generative grammar. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
33. Jurafsky, D. (2003). ''Probabilistic modeling in psycholinguistics: Linguistic comprehension and production'', in H. Bod, J. Hay and S. Jannedy (eds.), Probabilistic linguistics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
34. Krahmer, E. and M. Swerts (2001). ''On the alleged existence of contrastive accents''. Speech Communication 34 (4): 391-405.
35. Kruijff-Korbayová, I. and M. Steedman. (2003). ''Discourse and information structure''. Journal of Logic, Language and Information 12: 249-259.
36. Ladd, D. R. (1980). The structure of intonational meaning: Evidence from English. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
37. Ladd, D. R. (2008). Intonational phonology. 2nd Edition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
38. Ladd, D. R. and R. Morton. (1997). ''The perception of intonational emphasis: Continuous or categorical?''. Journal of Phonetics 25: 313-342.
39. Lambrecht, K. (1994). Information structure and sentence form. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
40. Liberman, M. (1975). ''The intonational system of English'', Ph.D. Thesis, MIT Linguistics, Cambridge, MA.
41. Menard, S. (1995). Applied logistic regression analysis, Sage University Paper Series on Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, 07-106. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
42. Myers, R. (1990). Classical and modern regression with applications. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Duxbury.
43. Nakatani, C., J. Hirschberg and B. Grosz (1995). ''Discourse structure in spoken language: Studies on speech corpora'', Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Empirical Methods in Discourse Interpretation and Generation, Stanford, CA, 106-112.
44. Nenkova, A., J. Brenier, A. Kothari, S. Calhoun, L. Whitton, D. Beaver and D. Jurafsky (2007). ''To memorize or to predict: Prominence labeling in conversational speech'', NAACL Human Language Technology Conference, Rochester, NY.
45. Nenkova, A. and D. Jurafsky (2007). ''Automatic detection of contrastive elements in spontaneous speech'', IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), Kyoto, Japan.
46. Ostendorf, M., I. Shafran, S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, L. Carmichael and W. Byrne (2001). ''A prosodically labeled database of spontaneous speech'', Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding, Red Bank, NJ, 119-121.
47. Pan, S., K. McKeown and J. Hirschberg. (2002). ''Exploring features from natural language generation for prosody modeling''. Computer Speech and Language 16: 457-490.
48. Pierrehumbert, J. and J. Hirschberg (1990). ''The meaning of intonational contours in the interpretation of discourse'', in P. Cohen, J. Morgan and M. Pollack (eds.), Intentions in communication. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 271-311.
49. Pitrelli, J., M. Beckman and J. Hirschberg (1994). ''Evaluation of prosodic transcription labelling reliability in the ToBI framework'', Proceedings of ICSLP, Vol. 2, Yokohama, Japan, 123-126.
50. Price, P., M. Ostendorf, S. Shattuck-Hufnagel and C. Fong. (1991). ''The use of prosody in syntactic disambiguation''. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 90: 2956-2970.
51. Roberts, C. (1996). ''Information structure: Towards an integrated theory of formal pragmatics'', OSU Working Papers in Linguistics: Papers in Semantics, Vol. 49, 91-136.
52. Rooth, M. (1992). ''A theory of focus interpretation''. Natural Language Semantics 1: 75-116.
53. Rump, H. and R. Collier. (1996). ''Focus conditions and the prominence of pitch-accented syllables''. Language and Speech 39: 1-17.
54. Selkirk, E. (1984). Phonology and syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
55. Selkirk, E. (1995). ''Sentence prosody: Intonation, stress and phrasing'', in J. Goldsmith (ed.), The handbook of phonological theory. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 550-569.
56. Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., M. Ostendorf and K. Ross. (1994). ''Stress shift and early pitch accent placement in lexical items in American English''. Journal of Phonetics 22: 357-388.
57. Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. and A. E. Turk (1996). ''A prosody tutorial for investigators of auditory sentence processing''. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 25 (2): 193-247.
58. Sridhar, V. K. R., A. Nenkova, S. Narayanan and D. Jurafsky (2008). ''Detecting prominence in conversational speech: Pitch accent, givenness and focus'', Proceedings of Speech Prosody, Campinas, Brazil.
59. Steedman, M. (2000). ''Information structure and the syntax-phonology interface''. Linguistic Inquiry 31 (4): 649-689.
60. Terken, J. and D. Hermes (2000). ''The perception of prosodic prominence'', in M. Horne (ed.), Prosody: Theory and experiment. Studies presented to Gösta Bruce. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 89-127.
61. Terken, J. and J. Hirschberg. (1994). ''Deaccentuation of words representing 'given' information: Effects of persistence of grammatical role and surface position''. Language and Speech 37: 125-145.
62. Truckenbrodt, H. (1995). ''Phonological phrases: Their relation to syntax, focus and prominence'', Ph.D. Thesis, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
63. Umbach, C. (2004). ''On the notion of contrast in information structure and discourse structure''. Journal of Semantics 21: 155-175.
64. Vallduví, E. and M. Vilkuna. (1998). ''On rheme and contrast''. Syntax and Semantics 29: 79-108.
65. Wagner, P. (1999). ''The synthesis of German contrastive focus'', Proceedings of ICPhS, San Francisco, CA.
66. Watson, D., C. Gunlogson and M. Tanenhaus (2008). ''Interpreting pitch accents in on-line comprehension: H* vs. LH*''. Cognitive Science 32 (7): 1232-1244.
67. Xu, Y. and C. Xu. (2005). ''Phonetic realization of focus in English declarative intonation''. Journal of Phonetics 33: 159-197.
68. Yoon, T.-J., S. Chavarría, J. Cole and M. Hasegawa-Johnson (2004). ''Intertranscriber reliability of prosodic labeling on telephone conversation using ToBI'', Proceedings of ICSLP, Jeju, Korea.
69. Zhang, T., M. Hasegawa-Johnson and S. Levinson. (2006). ''Extraction of pragmantic and semantic salience from spontaneous spoken English''. Speech Communication 48: 437-462.