indexical meaning, linguistic ideology, and japanese women's speech

Indexical and Linguistic Channels in Speech Perception: Some Effects of Voiceovers on Advertising Outcomes

This article examines the effects that voice features have on advertising. Previous research in neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics shows that linguistic and extralinguistic (“indexical”) properties of speech are closely coupled in speech perception and spoken language processing. We review research from the advertising and marketing literature that examines which voices are the most suitabl...

Are Lexical Meaning and Context Sufficient for Determining Indexical Reference?

David Kaplan’s ([Kaplan, 1989b], [Kaplan, 1989a]) philosophical work on indexicals has been influential not only with philosophers, but also with psychologists and linguists (e.g., Miller and Nunberg). Nevertheless, Kaplan’s account of indexicals has several problems. In this paper, I discuss his view that lexical meaning and context are sufficient for determining the reference of what he calls...

Discourse Plans and Linguistic Meaning

There are two different approaches to meaning formalization: one logical, another cognitive. The logical approach, going back to Frege and developed and explicitly applied to natural language semantics by Montague, is characterized by establishing semantics from primitive semantic structures of sentential type. This approach is most consistently represented by type logical grammars (see collect...

Meaning and Speech Acts

Lexical and indexical cues in masking by competing speech.

Three experiments were conducted using the TVM sentences, a new set of stimuli for competing speech research. These open-set sentences incorporate a cue name that allows the experimenter to direct the listener's attention to a target sentence. The first experiment compared the relative efficacy of directing the listener's attention to the cue name versus instructing the subject to listen for a ...