Accessibility and Referential Choice: Personal Pronouns and D-pronouns in Written German
We present a corpus study and a production experiment that investigated the choice between two types of pronouns in written German – personal pronouns and so-called d-pronouns, which have properties of both personal and demonstrative pronouns.
Yvonne Portele, Markus Bader
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Abstract As a primary source for the early ages, picture books guide preschool children's gender perception through stories and illustrations. However, previous studies have criticised an overall gender inequality in children's picture books. Compared to the increasing attention on gender diversity in the UK picture book industry, there has been little
Yi Li, Melissa Terras, Yongning Li
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Personal Pronouns in Biden’s Inaugural Speech: A Critical Discourse Perspective
This research primarily examines the first-person personal pronouns in political discourse, political speech in particular. This research aims to reveal how the pronoun I and we are exploited by the politician for the specific intention in political ...
Muhammad Masqotul Imam Romadlani
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Agentivity drives real-time pronoun resolution : Evidence from German er and der [PDF]
We report two experiments on the referential resolution of the German subject pronoun er and the demonstrative der (‘he’). Using the visual world eye-tracking paradigm, we examined the effects of grammatical role, thematic role and the information status
Jarvikivi, Juhani +2 more
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The interpretation of German personal pronouns and d-pronouns
Three experiments investigated the interpretation and production of pronouns in German. The first two experiments probed the preferred interpretation of a pronoun in contexts containing two potential antecedents by having participants complete a sentence
Bader Markus, Portele Yvonne
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Pour une systématisation du pronom ce devant la copule être en opposition aux pronoms il impersonnel et il personnel [PDF]
Our study, which falls within the field of teaching French as a foreign language, is inspired by two seemingly contradictory observations. The first concerns a recurrent error of Italian learners, who use the third-person personal pronoun, where only ...
Jean-Pierre Seghi
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FIRST PERSON JUDGMENTS AND THEIR PRAGMATIC LOAD IN THE REACTIVE REPLICAS OF THE POLITICIAN INTERVIEWED [PDF]
In our article we state that in interviews politicians use the first person pronoun for representing their «I», relate this pronoun with personal coverage of their images in the positive light.
Borisenko Viktoriya A.
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Kata Ganti Orang Bahasa Inggris Dan Bahasa Klabra (Suatu Analisis Kontrastif) [PDF]
This skripsi is entitled "The Personal Pronoun of English and Klabra Language; “A Contrastive Analysis”. This study has the objective to identify, categorize and analyze the personal pronoun of English and Klabra language based on form, function and ...
MARAR, E. (ESAU)
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Why DO dove: Evidence for register variation in Early Modern English negatives [PDF]
The development of “supportive” (or “periphrastic”) DO in English suffered a curious and sharp reversal late in the 16th century in negative declaratives and questions according to Ellegård's (1953) database, with a recovery late in the following century.
Anthony Warner +3 more
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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