Do Italian speakers deaccent given information? In this study we examined word tokens repeatedly mentioning the same entity within a task-oriented dialogue. Contrary to what is expected in Germanic languages, results show that the vast majority of the repeated mentions are accented irrespective of their being hearer/discourse given or discourse segment given .

Accenting deaccenting and information structure in Italian dialogues

Avesani C;
2005

Abstract

Do Italian speakers deaccent given information? In this study we examined word tokens repeatedly mentioning the same entity within a task-oriented dialogue. Contrary to what is expected in Germanic languages, results show that the vast majority of the repeated mentions are accented irrespective of their being hearer/discourse given or discourse segment given .
2005
Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione - ISTC
Inglese
L. Dybkjaer; W. Minker
Proceedings of the 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
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24
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Sì, ma tipo non specificato
2/9-3/9 2005
Lisbon
information structure; prosody; deacceting.
SIGdial notification: Dear Cinzia Avesani, We are happy to inform you that your submission "Accenting deaccenting and information structure in Italian dialogues" has been accepted for presentation at the sixth SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue. Please inform your co-author(s), if any. The competition has been extremely hard since we received 80 submissions and can only accommodate about 30 papers in the two days workshop, i.e. less than 40% of the submitted papers could be accepted. Each submission has been sent to three reviewers and evaluated on a scale from 1 (bottom) to 5 (top). Please find attached the reviewers' comments, if any. Only papers with an average score of at least 4 have been accepted.
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Avesani, C; Vayra, M
273
info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject
04 Contributo in convegno::04.01 Contributo in Atti di convegno
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