Semantics and focus in immediate discourse interpretation

The aim of utterance interpretation is to integrate what is being said with what has been said so far. This paper examines some factors which affect the "on-line" construction of a coherent discourse representation. Building on ideas presented in Garrod and Sanford (1977) and others we rep...

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Main Author: Durrant-Peatfield, Mark Robert
Published: Birkbeck (University of London) 1996
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243910