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Journal of Pragmatics, 2021 In all spoken languages, speakers use demonstratives – words like this and that – to refer to entities in their immediate environment. But which factors determine whether they use one demonstrative (this) or another (that)?
A. Skilton, David Peeters
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Do thus: an investigation into anaphoric event reference
Glossa, 2021 Work on anaphoric event reference has focused on do so, do it, do this, and do that. This paper reports on an analysis of a heretofore unstudied form of event reference, do thus.
Joshua Wampler
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Death of a Demonstrative: Person and Time. The Case of Estonian too [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 Demonstratives comprise different systems in different Estonian dialect areas. The number of demonstrative pronouns in these systems ranges from one to three.
Renate Pajusalu
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The Semantics of Spatial Demonstratives in Spanish: A Demonstrative Choice Task Study
Language and Cognition, 2021 Demonstratives (this/that in English) are pivotal in communication. In this study, we show that semantic features of referents systematically influence speakers’ choices of demonstrative forms for Spanish nouns in the absence of a guiding context.
E. Todisco, R. Rocca, M. Wallentin
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Kinestetik, 2023 The purpose of this study is to find out the initial reference and see other research perspectives as a basis for developing appropriate teaching methods in physical education.
Pungki Indarto +5 more
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A conceptual framework for the study of demonstrative reference
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2020 Language allows us to efficiently communicate about the things in the world around us. Seemingly simple words like this and that are a cornerstone of our capability to refer, as they contribute to guiding the attention of our addressee to the specific ...
David Peeters, E. Krahmer, A. Maes
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Demonstratives in Spatial Language and Social Interaction: An Interdisciplinary Review
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 This paper offers a review of research on demonstratives from an interdisciplinary perspective. In particular, we consider the role of demonstratives in current research on language universals, language evolution, language acquisition, multimodal ...
Holger Diessel, Kenny R. Coventry
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From demonstrative to filler: este in Amazonian Spanish and beyond
Linguistics, 2023 In Amazonian Spanish, este has two main functions: demonstrative and filler. Filler-este, which originally evolved from demonstrative-este, serves to deal with word-formulation delays during spontaneous speech production. Analyses of conversations reveal
Vallejos-Yopán Rosa
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, 2020 The present work evaluated polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) and carbohydrates production by wastewater borne cyanobacteria at demonstrative-scale (three photobioreactors (PBR) of 11.7 m3 each), using agricultural runoff as feedstock. Agricultural runoff was fed
E. Rueda +6 more
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The Referential Uses of Demonstratives in Kerinci Malay, Indonesia
Arbitrer, 2020 Demonstratives are pervasive and ubiquitous in every human language. This study explores further evidence from Kerinci, a Malayic sub-variety spoken in Sumatra, Indonesia. It highlights the referential uses of the Kerinci proximal demonstratives ineh/neh
Ernanda Ernanda
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