Centering and Pronominal Reference: In Dialogue, In Spanish
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چکیده
This paper describes an application of Centering Theory (Grosz et al. 1995) to dialogue in Spanish. Centering is a theory of local focus and local discourse coherence. It also relates focus in discourse to choice of referring expression. In this paper, I discuss the analysis of nine task-oriented conversations. The main aim of the paper is to establish links between transition type and choice of pronoun, studying correlations between those two, and examining what other factors might be at play when a general tendency (e.g., of CONTINUE transitions to result in pro-drop) is not followed. I explore whether some of those factors could be related to characteristics of dialogue, such as signaling turn-taking.
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