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Accenting and Information Status Julia Hirschberg CS 6998 11/20/2018

Issues What sorts of information status are useful to distinguish? Given/new Contrast Topic/comment Theme/rheme Are all these different? How are they related? Over what domains are they defined? How do they relate to other linguistic phenomena? 11/20/2018

Defining Given/New Halliday: Given: Recoverable from context New: Not recoverable Prince ‘81: New: Brand-new or unused Given: evoked (textually or situationally) or inferable Prince ‘92: 11/20/2018

Discourse-old, discourse-new Hearer-old, hearer-new 11/20/2018

Brown ‘83: How does accent related to given/new? Speech elicitation in lab Scottish English Prince ‘81 derived categories Results: Brand-new information accented Note: new entity/old expression Inferable information accented Evoked information deaccented 11/20/2018

Bard’99: Givenness, deaccenting and intelligibility Speech elicited in lab Glasgow English Map Task Given: repeated mention (within dialogue vs. across dialogue) Does structural similarity --> deaccenting --> less intelligibility (Terken & Hirschberg ‘94) Weird definition of deaccenting (includes difference in boundary tone) 11/20/2018

Deaccenting rare in repeated mentions (within and across dialogues) Results: Deaccenting rare in repeated mentions (within and across dialogues) Second mentions less intelligible whether deaccented or not (tho more change when deaccented) Structural difference doesn’t account for deaccenting But same structure repetitions rare 11/20/2018

Conclusion: Lab experiments don’t generalize? 11/20/2018

Next Week Read emotion articles (linked from syllabus) Bring 3 discussion questions to class Projects: Project status report and annotated bibliography due after spring break 11/20/2018

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