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  <Title>PREFERRED ARGUMENT STRUCTURE FOR DISCOURSE UNDERSTANDING</Title>
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4. Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> hi this paper, we have demonstrated that Chinese narrative discourse also displays Preferred Argument Structure based on the quantity and distribution of lexieal arguments and new referents across grammatical roles.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> However, the Chinese PAS challenges the universality of the one Du Bois proposed, because they differ in the distribution of lexical arguments and new referents across grammatical roles. In other words, the discourse pressure driving the various grammatical patterning in different languages reflects the underlying pragmatic preference of the different groups of language users.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> From the computational viewpoint, no matter whether PAS is universal or languagespecific, its existence has significant implication to discourse understanding. On the one hand, PAS can function in a discourse understanding model as a heuristic device to process the information structure of a connected spoken discourse; on the other hand, the information status of an argument can be identified by virtue of grammatical analysis since the flow of information has a corresponding grammatical patterning,</Paragraph>
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