Submitted by eleni on Fri, 2010-02-26 18:29
The first article of the free access Dialogue and Discourse journal has appeared:
"Completions, coordination, and alignment in dialogue" by Massimo Poesio and Hannes Rieser
They propose a treatment of collaborative completions (a species of split utterances in dialogue) within the PTT framework, incorporating a theory of incremental utterance interpretation and an account of grounding. The analysis employs Lexical Tree Adjoining Grammar (LTAG), (Compositional) DRT and Situation Semantics to analyse the structure and semantics of these constructions. In addition, the generation and processing of collaborative completions is grounded on an intentional account, as well as a preliminary formulation within Pickering and Garrod’s alignment theory.