This work explores what people do to inform their surroundings about who is the main addressee of their communicative acts in smart environments. A corpus of naive users, solving daily tasks in a smart home, which is additionally inhabited by a robot, is investigated. Evidence drawn from the corpus is used to create a first model for addressee recognition in smart environments. Finally, the per...

During thc past two decades, much work in linguistics has focused on sentences as minimal units of communication, and the project of rigorously characterizing the structure of sentences in natural language has met with some succcss. Not surprisingly, however, sentcnce grammars have contributed little to the analysis of discourse, Human discourse consists not just of words in sequences, hut of w...

This paper addresses the question of φ -feature marking in Basque. Basque finite verbs display an uncommonly large number of morphemes which covary with the φ -features of the absolutive, ergative, and dative arguments as well as (in some dialects) the gender of the addressee. Recent work (Preminger 2009; Arregi & Nevins 2012) has addressed the question of how these morphemes are derived. In ta...

Prior research on route descriptions does not reveal much about the relationship between mentally planning and describing routes, and the routes chosen when actually travelling. This paper addresses route choice in a familiar urban environment under three different conditions: walking the route, planning and describing the route for oneself, and planning and describing the route for an addresse...

This paper outlines a study that investigates spatial language for use in human-robot communication. The scenario studied is a home setting in which the elderly resident has misplaced an object, such as eyeglasses, and the robot will help the resident find the object. We present results from phase I of the study in which we investigate spatial language generated to a human addressee or a robot ...

proverb is one of the most beautiful rhetorical arts which makes delivering discourse close to the target and stabilizes meaning for the addressee. it has some features such as word briefness, suitable meaning,nice similie,fast circulation,ability to bring noticeable points closer to the reasonable ones and its acceptance by the public opinion. for this reason,this kind of innovative rhetorical...

The environmentally responsible behaviour of people is an important indicator sustainable society. anthropocentric paradigm in linguistics puts the person as a linguistic personality, producing and perceiving various speech messages, focus research. authors work emphasize that addressee figure communicative interaction. purpose this article to analyse specific features areas communication. rese...

Most wh-questions admit only exhaustive answers. For example, to properly answer (1), the addressee needs to specify all the attendants to the party, as in (1a). If the addressee can only provide a non-exhaustive answer, then he needs to indicate the incompleteness of his answer. For instance, he can mark his answer with a prosodic rise-fall-rise contour (in the following indicated by ‘.../’), ...

While there have been many attempts to estimate the emotion of an addresser from her/his utterance, few studies have explored how her/his utterance affects the emotion of the addressee. This has motivated us to investigate two novel tasks: predicting the emotion of the addressee and generating a response that elicits a specific emotion in the addressee’s mind. We target Japanese Twitter posts a...