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An Experimental Investigation of the Binding Options of Demonstrative Pronouns [PDF]

, 2019
This  paper  discusses  three  reading  time  studies  which,  first,  provide  empirical evidence for the claim made by Hinterwimmer (2015) that German demonstrative pronouns can in  principle be bound under c-command as long as their binders are not ...
Hinterwimmer, Stefan, Brocher, Andreas
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The Physical, Emotional, and Autonomous Anthropomorphism of Service Chatbots

Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior research on chatbot anthropomorphism has often treated it as a unidimensional construct, producing inconsistent findings regarding how human‐like design cues shape user responses. This study conceptualizes anthropomorphism as a multidimensional higher‐order perception comprising three distinct forms of anthropomorphic attribution ...
Yangjuan Hu, Fulya Acikgoz, Shubin Yu
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The timing of prominence information during the resolution of German personal and demonstrative pronouns [PDF]

, 2020
German personal and demonstrative pronouns have distinct preferences in their interpretation; personal pronouns are more flexible in their interpretation but tend to resolve to a prominent antecedent, while demonstratives have a strong preference for a ...
Schumacher, Petra, Patterson, Clare
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Pronouns as demonstratives

, 2021
Assertions are often accepted without being understood, a phenomenon I call stupefying. I argue that stupefying can be a means for conversational manipulation that works through at-issue content, in contrast with the not-at-issue and back-door speech act routes identified by others.
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Demonstrative pronouns in Kina Rutul

peer reviewedThis paper presents the results of an experimental study of exophoric uses of demonstrative pronouns in the Kina variety of Rutul (Lezgic, East Caucasian). We collected the questionnaire designed by Wilkins (1999) from seven female native
Nasledskova, Polina, Mukhin, Timofey
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How Personal Pronouns Shape Persuasion

Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Communication often involves personal pronouns. Consumers, for example, frequently say “I love this restaurant” or “you'll enjoy those shoes.” How do first‐person (e.g., I) and second‐person (e.g., you) singular pronouns shape persuasion? Are communicators correct about which ones are more effective?
Wenyan Yin, Jonah Berger, Yanliu Huang
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German demonstrative pronouns differ in their sensitivity to discourse and sentence topics

Frontiers in Communication
German has two demonstrative pronoun series: the short form der, die, das, and the long form dieser, diese, dieses. Both forms can be used anaphorically, and they contrast with the personal pronouns er, sie, es in that they refer to an antecedent that is
Timo Buchholz, Klaus von Heusinger
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Thinking with trees: Responding to sympoietic plant relations through visual art

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Amid escalating climate crises, this paper explores how we might rethink our relationship with the natural world, particularly with plants and trees, through the perspectives of visual art. This paper reveals how art invites us to see trees and other plant life not as passive background scenery, but as living beings with their own forms of experience ...
Xiaoyu Yang
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Pronoun Fronting to Negation in Late Archaic Chinese

Acta Linguistica Asiatica
This paper examines clause-internal preposing of pronominal non-wh-determiner phrases (non-wh-DP) in Late Archaic Chinese (LAC). Demonstrative pronouns may front to preverbal positions above negation, either in the left periphery or within the sentence ...
Aiqing Wang
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An approach for summarization of two-sentences Vietnamese paragraph

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Context-aware Systems and Applications, 2016
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a general approach for summarizing the meaning of Vietnamese paragraphs based on simple two-sentences. The studied objects are paragraphs having the common characteristics: the first sentence has one or two nouns
Trung Tran, Dang Tuan Nguyen
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