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Giora, Rachel, Shir Givoni and Dafna Bergerbest. 2013. How speakers alert addressees to multiple meanings. Journal of Pragmatics 48 (1) : 29–40.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

Two experiments and a corpus-based (Hebrew language) analysis confirm the hypothesis, renouncing the Graded Salience Hypothesis, that addressees’ attention to meanings low on salience is actually drawn by speakers' explicit marking (the low-salience marking hypothesis).