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I'd been planning to call a department meeting on the 16th but don't want
to conflict with this talk of Laura's.  Can we postpone meeting until March
31st?  Lise


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>Title: "Prosody and Information Structure: Iconicity and Inference" 
>Time: 3:30 March 16 
>Place: Hellems 229 
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>Basic idea: I will be looking at theories which propose a connection
>between the primary sentence stress and the scope of assertion in the
>sentence. I will critique a model of this connection offered by Dwight
>Bolinger in the 50s and early 60s. This model holds that sentence accent
>is ICONIC, in that it marks the 'information point' of the sentence. I
>will propose an alternative theory based on focus CONSTRUCTIONS, which are
>grammatical mediators between semantic categories (two of which were
>recognized in the 19th century work of the German philosophers Brentano
>and Marty) and prosodic form. In so doing, I will argue against views
>which propose a grammatical category of CONTRASTIVE FOCUS, proposing
>instead that contrast is a Gricean quantity inference. 
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>Laura A. Michaelis, Ph.D.
>Department of Linguistics - CB 295
>University of Colorado
>Boulder, CO 80309
>Office: (303) 492-1990
>http://spot.Colorado.EDU/~michaeli/Home.html
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Lise Menn
Professor and Chair
Linguistics Department - Box 295
University of Colorado
Boulder CO 80309-0295
303-492-1609; fax 303-492-4416

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