Entailed feedback: Evidence from a ranking experiment
Marcin Włodarczak, Harry Bunt, Volha Petukhova · Research portal (Tilburg University) · 2010
In this paper we investigate relationships between entailment relations among communicative functions and dominance judgements in an annotation task in which participants are instructed to rank utterance functions in terms of their importance. It is hypothesised that on average entailed functions should be assigned lower ranks than entailing functions. Preliminary results of an experiment are reported for positive auto-feedback functions which are argued to be entailed by backward-looking functions such as Confirm.