A pronoun was coded as ' uncertain ' if its referent could not be determined.
However, over half of these informative utterances did not give precise data about the referents involved in the search of the treasure.
This is based on measures of a referent's prior salience in the discourse and its planned persistence in the next utterance.
None of the four forms could have been used in the presence of the referent.
If a referent ceases to be mentioned in the text, however, its local salience is incrementally decreased.
Pragmatically neutral conditions provide no situational cue as to the referent set that needs to be restricted.
Evidently this assessment is built to index her own independent access to the referent as the basis for the position she takes.
The prosody of good and bad news also displays iconicity with the affective referents associated with positive and negative experience.
