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A Bayesian Approach to German Personal and Demonstrative Pronouns [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 When faced with an ambiguous pronoun, an addressee must interpret it by identifying a suitable referent. It has been proposed that the interpretation of pronouns can be captured using Bayes’ Rule: P(referent|pronoun) ∝ P(pronoun|referent)P(referent ...
Clare Patterson +2 more
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Interpreting Estonian Demonstratives: The Effects of Referent’s Distance and Visual Salience [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Most of the research done with spatial demonstratives (words such as this, here and that, there) have focused on the production, not the interpretation, of these words.
Nele Põldver, Maria Reile
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What naturalistic stimuli tell us about pronoun resolution in real-time processing [PDF]
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2023 Studies on pronoun resolution have mostly utilized short texts consisting of a context and a target sentence. In the current study we presented participants with nine chapters of an audio book while recording their EEG to investigate the real-time ...
Magdalena Repp, Petra B. Schumacher
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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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الأنماطُ السِّياقيَّةُ لأسماءِ الإشارةِ في الأمثالِ العربيَّةِ... مَجْمَع الأمثال لِلْمَيْدَانيّ أنموذجًا [PDF]
مجلة القراءة والمعرفة, 2020 سعت هذه الدِّراسة إلى بحث أسماء الإشارة الواردة في «مَجْمَع الأمثال» لِلْمَيْدَانيّ، ووصف أنماط سياقات أسماء الإشارة الواردة فيه، بالإضافة إلى السعي لتحديد کل سياق جاء فيه اسم الإشارة، وبيان وظيفته النَّصيّة، مع توضيح دور أسماء الإشارة في تحقيق التَّماس ...
نسرين عبد الله محروس بامنصور
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Effect of evaluative expressions on two types of demonstrative pronouns in German
Glossa, 2023 We propose a unified prominence-based account of the two paradigms of demonstrative pronouns in German: the die- and diese-paradigm. The two types of demonstrative pronouns have been shown to have similar referential preferences — avoiding the most ...
Petra B. Schumacher +2 more
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Demonstratives as bundlers of conceptual structure
Glossa, 2021 Pronoun resolution has long been central to psycholinguistics, but research has mostly focused on personal pronouns (“he”/“she”). However, much of linguistic reference is to events and objects, in English often using demonstrative pronouns, like “that ...
Elsi Kaiser, Eva Wittenberg, Shota Momma
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Komi sijõ / najõ ~ Udmurt so / soos 'that / those' > 'he, she / they'; 283-295 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2007 In the Komi language semantic divergency of personal and demonstrative pronouns advanced further than in the Udmurt one. The Komi forms naja, najõ âtheyâ have got additional marking, such as the Finnic-Permic suffix of collective multiplicity *-ja/*-
G. V. Fedjunjeva
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Japanese Research on Linguistics, Literature, and Culture, 2020 Bunmyakushiji type of ‘Ko-So-A’ demontrative pronouns are words that are being used to replace word(s) or to refer word(s) or thing(s) which have said before.
Irma Winingsih
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Strong semantic biases make demonstrative pronouns act like personal pronouns
Glossa, 2023 Anaphoric demonstrative pronouns (d-pronouns), which are found in some languages in addition to the more common personal pronouns (p-pronouns), provide an interesting test case for theories of pronoun resolution.
Markus Bader, Yvonne Portele
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