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Abstract | ||
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This paper addresses the problem of accent- ed occurrences of the verb believe that can- not be accounted for as instances of focus by either semantic or pragmatic accounts. In the natural interpretation of these accent- ed believe utterances, the embedded sen- tence expresses the main proposition while the believe serves to reduce the speaker's accountability. I present an account of these problematic utterances which cap- tures the accountability aspect of the inter- pretation and explains both similarities and differences between these cases and other instances of focus. Speaker accountability is modeled by ease of abandonment of a proposition within a belief revision system. I propose that the function of accented be- lieve is to explicitly mark a proposition as more easily abandoned than the contextual- ly determined default. Differences between accented believe and other instances of fo- cus are accounted for by believe being ex- ternal to the main proposition. |
Year | Venue | Keywords |
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1994 | ICSLP | belief revision |
Field | DocType | Citations |
Computer science,Cognitive science,Speech recognition,Belief revision | Conference | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 0 | 1 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Beth Ann Hockey | 1 | 212 | 36.35 |