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    "pk": 26992,
    "title": "Rational use of prosody predicts projection in manner adverb utterances",
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    "abstract": "Speakers can be taken to be committed to utterance con-tent even when that content is contributed in the scope ofan entailment-canceling operator, like negation (e.g., Chier-chia & McConnell-Ginet, 1990). We develop a probabilisticmodel of this phenomenon, called ‘projection’, that relies onthe prosodic realization of utterances. We synthesize exist-ing theoretical claims about prosody, information structure andprojection into a model that assumes a rational speaker (Frank& Goodman, 2012) who produces utterances with prosodicmelodies that can signal which utterance content she is com-mitted to. Predictions of the probabilistic model are comparedto the responses of an experiment designed to test the effect ofprosody on projection in manner adverb utterances. Key be-haviors of the model are borne out empirically, and the quan-titative fit is surprisingly good given that the model has onlyone free parameter. Our findings lend support to analyses ofprojection that are sensitive to the information structure of ut-terances (e.g., Simons, Beaver, Roberts, & Tonhauser, 2017).",
    "language": "eng",
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    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Projection; prosody; information structure; proba-bilistic pragmatics; rational speech acts; manner adverbs"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Talks: Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8p82k85g",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Jon",
            "middle_name": "Scott",
            "last_name": "Stevens",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "The Ohio State University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Marie-Catherine",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "de Marneffe",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "The Ohio State University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Shari",
            "middle_name": "R.",
            "last_name": "Speer",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "The Ohio State University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Judith",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Tonhauser",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "The Ohio State University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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