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Persian Deixis in the Flow of Conversation
Studia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 469-488, December 2025.ABSTRACT This study investigates the two demonstratives in Persian conversation, namely the proximal een, “this,” and distal oun, “that,” and their plural forms, that constitute the bulk of Persian pronominal and adnominal demonstratives functioning as anaphoric, deictic, discourse‐deictic and recognitional. The data from which these demonstratives are
Hossein Shokouhi
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Microvariation in the resolution of pronominal subjects in Romance: European Portuguese vs. Italian
Isogloss, 2022 The present study investigates how adult native speakers of two null subject Romance languages, European Portuguese (EP) and Italian, interpret null and overt pronominal subjects in intrasentential contexts. Participants were 30 speakers of EP and 30 of
Alexandra Fiéis +2 more
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Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 10, October 2025.ABSTRACT Recent philosophy of language has seen a growing interest in what is often called the dynamics of conversation or conversational scorekeeping, that is, the ways in which speech and context mutually interact in the course of a conversation.
Lars Dänzer +2 more
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Prosodic correlates of pronoun disambiguation in Spanish
Estudios de Fonética Experimental, 2012 One of the major challenges in pronominal anaphora resolution occurs when the anaphor is ambiguous. This paper explores the interplay between prosodic features and pronominal anaphora in ambiguous discourse in Spanish.
Luz Rello, Joaquim Llisterri
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Glossa, 2019 There are two common competing conceptions of how ellipsis can be resolved: in the first, ellipsis is resolved by constructing unpronounced syntactic representations at the ellipsis site; in the second, ellipsis can be resolved by consulting the semantic/
Jason Merchant, Julian Grove, Ming Xiang
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Glossa, 2023 Anaphora Resolution (AR) is a pervasive phenomenon in natural languages. AR relates to how referring expressions (REs) (e.g., null/overt subject pronouns, and NPs) corefer with their antecedents in discourse.
Andreas Charatzidis +3 more
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LIST, ASSEMBLAGE, INTERRUPTION: MIGRANT LITERATURE AGAINST STORY
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 413-421, September 2025.ABSTRACT Building on the centrality of translation theory in literary studies, this essay makes the case for the utility of literature in understanding the experience of migration. Rather than assuming that this means narrative fiction or nonfiction, it explores arguments against narrative.
KIRSTEN SILVA GRUESZ
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An integrated model for anaphora resolution [PDF]
Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics -, 1994 The paper discusses a new knowledge-based and sublanguage-oriented model for anaphora resolution, which integrates syntactic, semantic, discourse, domain and heuristical knowledge for the sublanguage of computer science. Special attention is paid to a new approach for tracking the center throughout a discourse segment, which plays an important role in ...
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EM works for pronoun anaphora resolution [PDF]
Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on - EACL '09, 2009 We present an algorithm for pronoun-anaphora (in English) that uses Expectation Maximization (EM) to learn virtually all of its parameters in an unsupervised fashion. While EM frequently fails to find good models for the tasks to which it is set, in this case it works quite well.
Eugene Charniak, Micha Elsner
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Truth‐Value Judgment Tasks in Second Language Research
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 5, September/October 2025.ABSTRACT This paper provides a focused review of truth‐value judgment tasks (TVJTs) as a method for eliciting interpretations in adult second language learners. We present the historical perspectives, the rationale for their use, the nature of the knowledge they target, and critical design considerations. Additionally, we discuss their effectiveness in
Shaohua Fang, Elaine J. Francis
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