High Level Stuff
May be split into two weeks.
Discussion to be lead by Whitney Gegg-Harrison and Judith Degen.
Papers:
1. Prosody and Focus
David Beaver (2009) Second occurrence focus: it’s not size that matters.
Duane G. Watson, Jennifer E. Arnold, and Michael K. Tanenhaus (2008) Tic Tac TOE: Effects of predictability and importance on acoustic prominence in language production. Cognition 106, 1548–1557
2. Bidirectional Optimality Theory
Reinhard Blutner (2000) Some aspects of optimality in natural language interpretation. Journal of Semantics 17, 189–216
Paul Dekkar and Robert van Rooy (2000) Bi-directional optimality theory: an application of game theory. Journal of Semantics 17, 217-242