Accent Is Predictable (If You're a Mind-Reader)¶
Bolinger, D. (1972). Accent Is Predictable (If You're a Mind-Reader). Language, 48(3), 633-644.
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Primes¶
- Emphasis
- Emphasis is recognized across disciplines with a unified structural signature: rhetorical tradition from Aristotle onward; modern phonological and prosodic linguistics (Bolinger 1972, Halliday 1967, Selkirk 1995, Pierrehumbert 1980); graphic and typographic design (Bringhurst 2004, Tufte 2001); information-structure linguistics (Lambrecht 1994, Krifka 2008, Chafe 1976, Prince 1981, Vallduví 1992, Büring 2007); contemporary visual-hierarchy design (Müller 2018); and machine-learning computational formalization (Vaswani et al. 2017, Harris 2020, Cresswell 1973).
This sourceFoundational argument that sentence-accent placement is governed by semantic and emotional highlighting rather than syntax — supports the prosodic-stress/emphasis-vehicle claim and the 'John ATE the apple' worked example.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
Bolinger (1972) argues accent placement reflects speaker intent and marks information focus, supporting the prosodic-stress clause but not a cross-disciplinary unified signature.
“Instead, accent should be viewed as independent, directly reflecting the speaker's intent and only indirectly the syntax. Accented words are points of information focus.”
- Emphasis is recognized across disciplines with a unified structural signature: rhetorical tradition from Aristotle onward; modern phonological and prosodic linguistics (Bolinger 1972, Halliday 1967, Selkirk 1995, Pierrehumbert 1980); graphic and typographic design (Bringhurst 2004, Tufte 2001); information-structure linguistics (Lambrecht 1994, Krifka 2008, Chafe 1976, Prince 1981, Vallduví 1992, Büring 2007); contemporary visual-hierarchy design (Müller 2018); and machine-learning computational formalization (Vaswani et al. 2017, Harris 2020, Cresswell 1973).
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