Accessibility scale
Definition of the JAST Edinburgh Accessibility Scale for Referring Expressions
|
Code |
Determiner |
Open class |
Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
|
0 |
numeral
indefinite article |
+ noun sequence (+modifiers, e.g. relative clause, prepositional phrase, etc.) |
one mountain a mountain a green square the triangle on the left hand side one edge of the purple square this little pink one on the top of the mountain |
|
1 |
definite article
possessive adjective |
+ nominal |
the mountain
my one my mountain your square our thing |
|
1.5 |
|
Bare adjective Bare noun |
Red Green Big Small triangle |
|
2 |
deictic adjective |
+ nominal |
This mountain, that parallelogram, these green triangles those triangles |
|
2.5 |
|
possessive pronoun
|
Mine Yours His Hers Their
|
|
deictic pronoun |
That This These those |
||
|
3 |
|
other pronouns |
It Him Her They them |
|
4 |
|
No audible referent or Cliticised referent |
-- (goes there) /?/ (goes there) ‘s (on top) |
Note: The symbol /?/ is the phonetic symbol for glottal stop, the sound often used for [t] at the ends of syllables in Scottish English (as in many other varieties). For the phonetically uninitiated, this sound is a catch in the throat. When a word like ‘it’ is really reduced, all you may here is a trace of the final consonant.
