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1、PitchAccentonDiscourseMarkerandDiscourseConstructionKiwakoIto&RossMetusalemDiscourseMarkersDiscourseMarkers(DMs):wordsorshortphrasesthatsetrelationsbetweenpriordiscourseandcurrentutterancese.g.,now,well,anyway,next,however,bytheway,inanycase,etc.“Cuephrases…directly
2、signalthestructureofdiscourse”(Hirschberg&Litman,1993)IntonationalvariationforDMsProsodydifferentiatestheusesofmulti-functionalDMsF:Itwasatonetimeall:almostallJewish.Nowit’sIwouldsaysi-J:sixtyJewish,fortyItalian.(Schiffrin,1987:p231)IntonationalvariationforDMsTheyar
3、en’tbroughtupthesameway.NowItalianpeopleareveryoutgoing.Theyareverygenerous.Whentheyputamealonthetableit’sameal.NowtheseboyswereIrish.Theyliveddifferent.(Schiffrin,1987:p231)IntonationandMeaningIntonationalcontoursusedtoindicatepragmaticmeaning(Pierrehumbert&Hirschb
4、erg,1990)e.g.,H*is‘new’,L-H%is‘continuationrise’L+H*iscommonlyusedto‘markacorrectionorcontrast’(p.296)e.g.,‘Don’thandmethebluepen.HandmetheREDone.’IntonationandOnlineDiscourseProcessingIntonationaffectscomprehensionL+H*usedfelicitouslyaidssentencecomprehension(Bock&
5、Mazella,1983)e.g.,ARNOLD/Arnolddidn’tFIX/fixtheradio.DORISfixedtheradio’(p.66)L+H*canleadtoanticipatoryeyemovements(ItoandSpeer,inpress)e.g.,First,hangthegreenball.Now,hangtheBLUEball’(p.11)L+H*andDMsIto&Speercont’dHangtheblueball.AndTHEN/then,hangtheGREENball.Noan
6、ticipatoryeyemovements,butfasterdeclinefromtargetwhenL+H*onDML+H*onDMmayleadtoanticipationofcontrastResearchQuestionDoesL+H*onaDMleadtoexpectationofcontrastbetweenprecedingutteranceandupcomingutterance?Ifyes,istheeffectglobalorlocal?IsaccentualpropertyofaDMinterpre
7、teda/cprosodicstructureofpriorcontext?TheExperimentDiscoursecompletiontasksubjectslistentoshortstoriesandprovideanappropriatecontinuationaccentualpatternofstimulivariedtotesteffectofL+H*inpriordiscourseandDMHypothesis:L+H*onDMevokesacontrastbetweenprecedingutterance
8、andupcomingutteranceProsodicandinformationalstructureofresponsesshouldbemorepredictablefromprecedingsentencewhenL+H*onDMversusH*onDMMateri