The Effect of Contour Type and Epistemic Modality on the Assessment of Speaker Certainty (2009)
Agustín Gravano, Stefan Benus, Julia Hirschberg, Elisa Sneed German, Gregory Ward
In an empirical study participants were asked to rate the perceived degree of certainty of utterances that contained either the modal would or main verb be (e.g. That would be me vs. That’s me),...
Julia Hirschberg, Agustín Gravano, Ani Nenkova, Elisa Sneed, Gregory Ward
Intonational contours are overloaded, conveying different meanings in different contexts. In this paper we examine two potential uses of the downstepped contours in Standard American English, in the...
Northwestern University Abstract (2008)
One of the central issues in studies of reference is the relationship between morpho-syntactic form and the accessibility of discourse referents. However, most of the work in this area has been...
Cohen, Jeremy, Ward, Gregory, Prins, Johannes, Jones, Mark, Venkatesh, Bala
Objective: To compare the total plasma cortisol values obtained from three widely used immunoassays and a high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) technique on samples obtained from patients with...
Cohen, Jeremy, Ward, Gregory, Prins, Johannes, Jones, Mark, Venkatesh, Bala
Objective: To compare the total plasma cortisol values obtained from three widely used immunoassays and a high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) technique on samples obtained from patients with...
Michael Stowasser, James Sharman, Rodel Leano, Richard D. Gordon, Gregory Ward, Diane Cowley, ...
This paper was first to report abnormalities in cardiac structure and function in normotensive subjects with genetically and biochemically confirmed primary aldosteronism, providing strong clinical...
Michael Stowasser, James Sharman, Rodel Leano, Richard D. Gordon, Gregory Ward, Diane Cowley, ...
This paper was first to report abnormalities in cardiac structure and function in normotensive subjects with genetically and biochemically confirmed primary aldosteronism, providing strong clinical...
Discourse and information structure (2001)
In addition to deciding what to say, speakers must decide how tosay it. The central premise of studies on the relationship between syntax and discourse func-tion is that a speaker's use of a...
The Holodeck interactive ray cache (1999)
Gregory Ward, Larson Maryann Simmons
We present a new method for rendering complex environments using interactive, progressive, viewindependent, parallel ray tracing. A four-dimensional holodeck data structure serves as a rendering...
The Holodeck Interactive Ray Cache (1999)
Gregory Ward Larson, Gregory Ward, Larson Maryann Simmons
We present a new method for rendering complex environments using interactive, progressive, viewindependent, parallel ray tracing. A four-dimensional holodeck data structure serves as a rendering...
On the Semantics and Pragmatics of `Identifier So' (1999)
this paper, we present an analysis of identifier so based on the informational structure of the discourse in which it is used. Drawing upon a large corpus of naturally occurring data, we show that...
A Comparison of Postposed Subjects in English and Italian (1998)
this paper, I examine the discourse properties of one set of such constructions --- subject postposing --- in English and Italian. For the purposes of this study, a subject is `postposed' if the...