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An Exploratory Study of ASL Demonstratives
Languages, 2019 American Sign Language (ASL) makes extensive use of pointing signs, but there has been only limited documentation of how pointing signs are used for demonstrative functions.
Jill P Morford +2 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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Learning from Demonstration without Demonstrations [PDF]
2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021.
Tom Blau, Philippe Morere, Gilad Francis
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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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Elevation as a Grammatical and Semantic Category of Demonstratives
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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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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Phonological derivation from proximal to distal demonstratives in Chinese
Linguistics, 2022 Every language has at least two demonstratives or deictic terms, a proximal one and a distal one, and some languages in addition have a medial (or some other additional) demonstrative.
Shi Yuzhi
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Acquisition of Demonstratives in English and Spanish
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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The Syntactic-Semantic Analyses of Sasak Demonstratives in Lombok
Ethical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature, 2020 Sasak language is spoken by approximately 3,352,888 people in Lombok, Indonesia. Typologically, it is a complex language because of its dual word orders. With its six dialectal varieties Meriaq-Meriqu, Menu-Meni, Ngeno-Ngene, Nggeto-Nggete, Meno-Meno and
Sutarman Sutarman, Nurachman Hanafi
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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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