### Summary box Relations of power are intrinsic to the social determinants sexual and reproductive health (SRH); they influence content, quality outcomes SRH care; shape negotiation realisation rights (SRHR) more broadly. Power dynamics pervade how SRHR is understood, studied acted on, in ways that distinct from other issues.1 For example, deeply held personal beliefs about women’s sexuality ...

The significantly low rate of HIV infection and high rate of condom use among sex workers in Kolkata, India is partially attributable to a community-led structural intervention called the Sonagachi Project which mobilizes sex workers to engage in HIV education, formation of community-based organizations and advocacy around sex work issues. This research examines how Sonagachi Project participan...

Korean exhibits a phenomenon that has been dubbed case stacking, in which the “nominative” particle ka is optionally suffixed to the subject in addition to the dative particle eykey. Numerous authors have claimed that “stacked” ka represents the realization of structural nominative case assigned to subject position, independent of inherent dative case. Under this view, ka-stacking provides prim...

Establishing and maintaining reference is a crucial part of discourse. In spoken languages, differential linguistic devices mark referents occurring in different referential contexts, that is, introduction, maintenance, and re-introduction contexts. Speakers using gestures as well as users of sign languages have also been shown to mark referents differentially depending on the referential conte...

Many connectives, such as but and although, can be used to mark very similar sets of relations, see Table 1. Fraser 1999 proposes that each connective has a core meaning and that a more specific discourse relation will be inferred from the content of the involved clauses. This implies that connectives which can mark the same relations have the same core meaning, and that alternating between two...

A key aspect of conversation is the interactive exchange of information and the cooperative discourse process that functions to bring about a mutually satisfactory sharing of information. The encountering of new information gives rise to emotional responses as well as on the certainty and degree of cognitive reorientation to the pre-existing knowledge state. In this study we present our results...

This paper reports three studies aimed at addressing three questions about the acoustic correlates of information structure in English: (1) do speakers mark information structure prosodically, and, to the extent they do, (2) what are the acoustic features associated with different aspects of information structure, and (3) how well can listeners retrieve this information from the signal? The inf...

This article is meant as a basis for a semantic annotation manual. The annotation will translate the logical structure of written and spoken speech by a language-independent manner. The basis for this thesis can be found in temporal logic of Mark Steedman and the formalism introduced here elaborates on Patrick Blackburn’s hybrid multimodal logic and Dependency Grammar Logic of Geert-Jan Kruijff...

We discuss the development of a system for marking several types of reference to facilitate the analysis of reference in discourse. The tool is designed to be used in three applications: generating training data for machine learning of co-reference relations, evaluating theories of referring expression generation and resolution in texts, and developing theories for understanding reference in di...

This paper presents a theory and a computational implementation for generating prosodically appropriate synthetic speech in response to database queries. Proper distinctions of contrast and emphasis are expressed in an intonation contour that is synthesized by rule under the control of a grammar, a discourse model, and a knowledge base. The theory is based on Combinatory Categorial Grammar, a f...