Japanese suppositional adverbs : probability and structure in speaker-hearer interaction

Distant Collocations between Suppositional Adverbs and Clause-Final Modality Forms in Japanese Language Corpora

Co-occurring of modal adverbs and clause-final modality forms in the Japanese language exhibits a strong agreement-like behaviour. We refer to such co-occurrences as distant collocations a notion that warrants further consideration within the fields of corpus linguistics and computational linguistics. In this paper we concentrate on a set of suppositional adverbs and investigate the kinds of cl...

Speaker-hearer beliefs for dis ourse planning

Incrementality, Speaker-Hearer Switching and the Disambiguation Challenge

Taking so-called split utterances as our point of departure, we argue that a new perspective on the major challenge of disambiguation becomes available, given a framework in which both parsing and generation incrementally involve the same mechanisms for constructing trees reflecting interpretation (Dynamic Syntax: (Cann et al., 2005; Kempson et al., 2001)). With all dependencies, syntactic, sem...

Representing Clarification Dialogues in a Speaker/ Hearer Model

This paper shows an extended Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) model which represents clarification dialogue and clarification dialogue acts and relates them to agents’ intentions. Agents’ intentions are linked to the dialogue acts associated with their utterances. The effect dialogue acts have on the speaker and the hearer is translated into an extended computational DRT model and linked t...

Signaling Non-Speaker commitment in Transparent Free Relatives: A paired Speaker-Hearer judgment study

In a typical conversation, Speakers are assumed to be committed to the content of their utterances. Recent research has uncovered several linguistic expressions or prosodic contours that convey subtle interactions between the commitments of discourse agents and the presumed source of the information. Another such case is that of Transparent Free Relatives, as in That’s an instance of what pragm...