  By strictest interpretation, theories of both centering and intonational
meaning fail to predict the existence of pitch accented pronominals. Yet they
occur felicitously in spoken discourse. To explain this, I emphasize the dual
functions served by pitch accents, as markers of both propositional
(semantic/pragmatic) and attentional salience. This distinction underlies my
proposals about the attentional consequences of pitch accents when applied to
pronominals, in particular, that while most pitch accents may weaken or
reinforce a cospecifier's status as the center of attention, a contrastively
stressed pronominal may force a shift, even when contraindicated by textual
features.
