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Prosody, priming and particular constructions: The patterning of English first-person singular subject expression in conversation
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In: Journal of Pragmatics (2015)
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Unexpressed subjects, though rare, do occur systematically in English. In this study, we seek to answer the question of what motivates speaker choice between expressed and unexpressed first singular subjects (i.e. I vs. an unexpressed, or null, pronoun) in a corpus of conversational American English. We find that the apparently widespread cross-linguistic constraint of subject continuity is bound to coreferential coordinating constructions with and, including lexically particular constructions ([I Verb1sgi and Ø Quotative verb1sgi], [I go1sgi and Ø Verb1sgi]), and to an overarching priming constraint, whereby coreferential unexpressed mentions tend to cluster together. A pivotal restriction is prosodic, such that, outside of coordinating constructions, unexpressed 1sg subjects occur only in Intonation-Unit initial position. We therefore find that variable I expression is sensitive to factors operative in subject expression in other languages and in language variation more generally, though paramount are prosodic considerations and particular constructions that may be specific to English.
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/61600 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2013.08.003
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Prosody, priming and particular constructions: The patterning of English first-person singular subject expression in conversation
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Making Voices Count: Corpus Compilation in Bilingual Communities
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In: Australian Journal of Linguistics (2015)
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Two languages, one effect: structural priming in spontaneous code-switching
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In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (2015)
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What do subject pronouns do in discourse? Cognitive, mechanical and constructional factors in variation
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In: Cognitive Linguistics (2015)
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Testing convergence via code-switching: priming and the structure of variable subject expression
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In: International Journal of Bilingualism (2015)
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What do subject pronouns do in discourse? Cognitive, mechanical and constructional factors in variation
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In: Cognitive Linguistics (2015)
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Making Voices Count: Corpus Compilation in Bilingual Communities
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In: Australian Journal of Linguistics (2015)
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Testing convergence via code-switching: priming and the structure of variable subject expression
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In: International Journal of Bilingualism (2015)
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Gauging convergence on the ground: Code-switching in the community
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In: International Journal of Bilingualism (2015)
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