Elevation as a Grammatical and Semantic Category of Demonstratives [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 In this paper I study semantic and pragmatic properties of elevational demonstratives by means of a typological investigation of 50 languages with elevational demonstratives from all across the globe.
Diana Forker
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Acquisition of Demonstratives in English and Spanish [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 The present work re-evaluates the long-standing claim that demonstratives are among infants’ earliest and most common words. Although demonstratives are deictic words important for joint attention, deictic gestures and non-word vocalizations could serve ...
Patricia González-Peña +2 more
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Demonstratives in Spatial Language and Social Interaction: An Interdisciplinary Review [PDF]
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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Children's understanding of demonstratives: an experimental study with German-speaking children between 5 and 7 years of age [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyDemonstratives (“this”/“that”) express a speaker-relative distance contrast and need to be substituted for each other systematically: depending on their relative position, what one speaker refers to by saying “this” another speaker has to refer to by ...
Ramiro David Glauer +4 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.
Maria Reile +3 more
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Effects of Scale on Multimodal Deixis: Evidence From Quiahije Chatino [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 As humans interact in the world, they often orient one another's attention to objects through the use of spoken demonstrative expressions and head and/or hand movements to point to the objects.
Kate Mesh +6 more
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Shrinking Your Deictic System: How Far Can You Go? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Languages around the world differ in terms of the number of adnominal and pronominal demonstratives they require, as well as the factors that impact on their felicitous use.
Mila Vulchanova +3 more
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A comparison between English demonstratives and Vietnamese demonstratives in argumentative essays
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022 In English and Vietnamese, demonstratives are considered one of the most important linguistic items for their ability to enhance writing coherence. Crucial as they are, few investigations have been conducted to analyze the differences in their uses in ...
Nguyet Minh Nguyen
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A contrastive analysis of articles in English and demonstratives in isiZulu
Literator, 2022 An analysis of the use of demonstratives in isiZulu (izabizwana zokukhomba) has shown that they go beyond the known deictic functions of demonstratives as used in other languages like English. In isiZulu, demonstratives tend to also denote specificity, a
Elliot M. Mncwango
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Constraints on German diese demonstratives: language formality and subject-avoidance
Glossa, 2020 Demonstrative pronouns in German occur in various paradigms such as die, diese, jene, diejenige, dieselbe, etc. Among these only the most frequent paradigm, die, has received attention from psycholinguistic research.
Peter Bosch +2 more
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