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Reflexive anaphor resolution in spoken language comprehension: Structural constraints and beyond
We report results from an eye-tracking during listening study examining English-speaking adults’ online processing of reflexive pronouns, and specifically whether the search for an antecedent is restricted to syntactically appropriate positions ...
Kaili eClackson, Vera eHeyer
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The Role of Discourse Prominence in Antecedent Search: The Case of Genitive Noun Phrases
The research investigated how readers comprehended reflexive pronoun anaphors (e.g., himself or herself) that occurred in the same sentence with an antecedent that was modified by a genitive noun phrase (NP).
Shelia M. Kennison
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Multiple constraints modulate the processing of Chinese reflexives in discourse
This study investigates the real-time processing of Chinese reflexives ziji and ta-ziji in discourse when multiple constraints are involved. Our primary goal is to examine the time course of syntactic and non-syntactic constraints in reflexive resolution.
Jun Lyu, Elsi Kaiser
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Differential Object Marking and discourse prominence in Spanish
Spanish, like many other Romance and non-Romance languages, shows Differential Object Marking (DOM), i.e., some direct objects are morphologically marked by the prepositional marker a ‘to’, while others remain unmarked.
Klaus von Heusinger +2 more
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Topic Modelling Discourse Dynamics in Historical Newspapers
This paper addresses methodological issues in diachronic data analysis for historical research. We apply two families of topic models (LDA and DTM) on a relatively large set of historical newspapers, with the aim of capturing and understanding ...
Jani Marjanen +4 more
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La scénographie numérique du discours hacktiviste des Anonymous
This discourse analysis looks at the digital staging of hacktivist discourse by members of Anonymous. The authors study the staging of a group of anonymous hackers who have risen to prominence through their counter-discourse and anti-government ...
Warda Baba Hamed, Sabiha Benmansour
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ABSTRACT Background Young adult childhood cancer survivors (YA‐CCS) have an increased risk of treatment‐related health complications throughout their lives. Lifelong survivorship care is recommended, yet many YA‐CCS experience disruptions in care during pediatric‐to‐adult transitions and do not receive recommended survivorship care.
Kevin Shanchen Pu +8 more
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The discourse function of inverse voice: An experimental study in Teribe (Chibchan) [PDF]
Quesada JD, Skopeteas S. The discourse function of inverse voice: An experimental study in Teribe (Chibchan). Journal of Pragmatics. 2010;42(9):2579-2600.It has been argued that the use of inverse voice in languages with pragmatic inversion depends on ...
J. Diego Quesada +3 more
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Left Dislocations (LDs) are generally regarded as carrying a Topic/Comment information partition and performing an overall topic-marking discourse function.
Doriana Cimmino, Valentina Saccone
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ABSTRACT Pediatric refractory immune thrombocytopenia (rITP) is generally characterized by persistent thrombocytopenia and failure to achieve a sustained response to multiple standard therapies. We report a 4‐year‐old female with congenital tufting enteropathy, post‐intestinal transplant patient on immunosuppressants, who developed severe rITP ...
Sarah Hsieh +4 more
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