- Nilsenova, M. (2002)
A Game-theoretical Approach to Intonation. In B. Bel and I. Marlien (eds.): Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2002, Aix-en-Provence, France. pdf
I analyze a small set of English data, consisting of rising declaratives and outer negation polar questions and extend the game-theoretical approach to intonation introduced by Arthur Merin and Christine Bartels.
- Nilsenova, M. (2002)
The Pragmatics of
Differential Object Marking. In M. Nissim (ed.): Proceedings of the ESSLLI '02 Student Session,
Trento, Italy. pdf (revised version)
Western Armenian is here identified as another language with differential object marking. I argue that the OT analysis of Aissen cannot account for DOM in languages like Armenian where it is not fully grammaticalized and is largely context-dependent. I propose an alternative analysis using bidirectional OT and suggest the use of Bi-OT in general to explain the mechanism of syntactic change triggered by language use.
- van Rooy, R. and
M. Safarova (2003) On Polar Questions. In
Proceedings of SALT '03. pdf
We analyze the difference in use between positive, negative and bi-polar interrogatives in English, using decision theory.
- Safarova, M. and M. Swerts (2004) On Recognition of Declarative Questions
in English. Speech and Prosody 2004, Nara, Japan. pdf
A report on the results of an experiment designed to test the phonological properties of declarative questions in American English.
- Safarova, M. (2005) Nuclear rises in update semantics. to appear in a volume on Questions ,
Elsevier. pdf
A summary of the empirical facts regarding the use of final rise in American English and their
semantic formalization in update semantics.
- Safarova, M. (2005) Quine. In S. Chapman and C. Routledge (eds.) Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh University Press.
- Safarova, M. (2005) Lacan. In S. Chapman and C. Routledge (eds.) Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh University Press.
- Safarova, M., Muller, P. and L. Prevot (2005) The Discourse Meaning of IP-final Rises in
French. pdf
In Proceedings of DIALOR ´05, Nancy, France.
A description of a pilot study of the discourse meaning contributed by rises at right intonation phrase
boundaries.
- Safarova, M. (to appear) What´s in a Question? pdf
to appear in Festschrift
for Oldrich Ulicny, J. Taborsky and E. Leheckova, eds., Charles University, Prague.
A description of an experiment designed to test the interpretation of the term "question" by native speakers
of American English. It turns out that they disagree to a significant degree: some of them interpret the notion purely
semantically, others understand it to include all response-seeking utterances, including action response-seeking
imperatives.
- Nilsenova, M. (2006) Rises and Falls. Studies in the semantics and pragmatics of intonation. PhD diss, University of Amsterdam.pdf
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