Referring and accessibility

M Ariel - Journal of linguistics, 1988 - cambridge.org
… When we examine texts, where the three types of referring expressions refer to entities
previously mentioned in the text, we can clearly see the role of Accessibility in determining choice …

How speakers refer: The role of accessibility

JE Arnold - Language and Linguistics Compass, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
accessibility is circularity: accessibility is used to explain why a pronoun is possible, but at the
same time we explain what accessibility is … of the subsequent referring expression as well. …

Accessibility theory and referring expressions in newspaper headlines

A Kronrod, O Engel - Journal of Pragmatics, 2001 - Elsevier
… patterns of referring in various Israeli daily newspaper headlines according to accessibility
theory (… The results of this study clearly showed that the Accessibility scale is not influenced by …

Accessibility theory: An overview

M Ariel - Text representation: Linguistic and psycholinguistic …, 2001 - torrossa.com
… the speaker can be referred to by higher accessibility markers than a pronoun. Indeed…
accessibility marking scale (namely, which referring expressions code which degree of accessibility

Who is where referred to how, and why? The influence of visual saliency on referent accessibility in spoken language production

J Vogels, E Krahmer, A Maes - Language and cognitive processes, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
… them more likely to be referred to first and to be referred to with an attenuated … accessibility.
In this article, we address the question whether non-linguistic factors can affect accessibility in …

Tuning accessibility of referring expressions in situated dialogue

EG Bard, RL Hill, ME Foster, M Arai - Language, Cognition and …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Accessibility theory associates more complex referring expressions with less accessible
referents. Felicitous referring expressions should reflect accessibility from the addressee's …

What (if anything) is accessibility? A relevance-oriented criticism of Ariel's Accessibility Theory of referring expressions

A Reboul - FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR SERIES, 1996 - degruyter.com
… content and referring ability of referring expressions from the accessibility scale? … accessibility
scale for all referring expressions; I will rather concentrate on one detail of the accessibility

The function of accessibility in a theory of grammar

M Ariel - Journal of pragmatics, 1991 - Elsevier
… those of NPs) are accessible to addressees in varying degrees, the claim is that speakers
choose between referring expressions so as to mark such accessibility differences for the …

Referring expressions and the+/-coreference distinction

M Ariel - Pragmatics and beyond new series, 1996 - torrossa.com
… Once the speaker has established what this current degree of accessibility is, she chooses
a referring expression from among the list of expressions available in her particular language. …

[PDF][PDF] Getting to know referring expressions: anaphor and accessibility in Mandarin Chinese

S Huang - Proceedings of ROCLING V, 1992 - aclclp.org.tw
accessibility of the antecedent of an anaphor to the hearer. To anticipate a major finding …
accessibility scale for referring expressions in Chinese can be expressed in (1): (1) Accessibility