Publications

Stressed and Unstressed Pronouns: Complementary Preferences

Aug, 1996
Journal
SRIPublication
By Megumi Kameyama

Abstract

I present a unified account of interpretation preferences of stressed and unstressed pronouns in discourse. The central intuition is the Complementary Preference Hypothesis that predicts the interpretation preference of a stressed pronoun from that of an unstressed pronoun in the same discourse position.

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Computing
Centers + Labs: 
Artificial Intelligence Center