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Accenting, Givenness, and Syntactic Role

Accenting, Givenness, and Syntactic Role. By E.G. Bard and M.P. Aylett Presented by David Vespe. Presentation Overview. Summary of authors’ work Authors’ results Analysis. Previous Work. Broadcast monologues, interviews Elicited descriptions What about spontaneous speech?. Main Idea.

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Accenting, Givenness, and Syntactic Role

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  1. Accenting, Givenness, and Syntactic Role By E.G. Bard and M.P. Aylett Presented by David Vespe

  2. Presentation Overview • Summary of authors’ work • Authors’ results • Analysis

  3. Previous Work • Broadcast monologues, interviews • Elicited descriptions • What about spontaneous speech?

  4. Main Idea • Compare repeated mentions: • In single task • Across many tasks

  5. Test Setup • Directions given imaginary map • Speakers encouraged to “contribute fully”

  6. Characteristics Examined • “Intelligibility Loss” • Accent • deaccented, reaccented • Structure • Conversational Move

  7. Results • Within a single dialogue: • Just 18% of repeated words deaccented • For dialogues in general: • Second use of a word tends to be less intelligible, regardless of accent • Structure not significant for predicting deaccenting

  8. Conclusions • Givenness does not imply deaccenting • Introduction of a term tends to maintain structure across dialogues; repeated mention does not • Controlled experiments don’t generalize to spontaneous speech

  9. Observations • Results are for “Glaswegian Southern Scottish English” • Did their own labeling

  10. Observations • Directions based on imaginary map • Everything is “new” • Penalty for bad directions may lead to overaccenting • Small numbers: • 48 cases of repetition across tasks • 3 of these are deaccented

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