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This review explores the current state of research on attitudes toward and the use of neo- and nonbinary pronouns, as well as their effects on gender conceptualization.
Emma A Renström
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Evidence suggests that English speakers use pronouns when referring to the grammatical subject and predictable thematic role. We tested how grammatical role and thematic role predictability affect different types of referential forms, namely, overt ...
Heeju Hwang +3 more
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Strong semantic biases make demonstrative pronouns act like personal pronouns
Anaphoric demonstrative pronouns (d-pronouns), which are found in some languages in addition to the more common personal pronouns (p-pronouns), provide an interesting test case for theories of pronoun resolution.
Markus Bader, Yvonne Portele
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My pronouns are they/them: Talking about pronouns changes how pronouns are understood [PDF]
The pronoun “they” can be either plural or singular, perhaps referring to an individual who identifies as nonbinary. How do listeners identify whether “they” has a singular or plural sense? We test the role of explicitly discussing pronouns (e.g., “Alex uses they/them pronouns”).
Dong, Lisa +2 more
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Avoiding gender ambiguous pronouns in French [PDF]
International audienceAcross many languages, pronouns are the most frequently produced referring expressions. We examined whether and how speakers avoid referential ambiguity that arises when the gender of a pronoun is compatible with more than one ...
Alario, F-Xavier +3 more
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In this paper we document a so-far neglected case of microvariation involving resumptive pronouns in the left-dislocation construction in Meranese, spoken in South Tyrol, and Mòcheno, spoken in the Fersina valley (Trentino).
Federica Cognola, Jan Casalicchio
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Les pronoms de l’anglais : approche diachronique
The aim of this article is to give an account of the evolution of pronouns from the Old English period to the Renaissance. It starts with a description of the Old English system (personal, demonstrative, interrogative and relative pronouns) and examines ...
Catherine Delesse
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Who is kissing whom? Two-year-olds’ comprehension of pronouns, case and word order
Two-year olds’ comprehension of pronouns in transitive sentences was examined. Previously, children at this age have been shown to comprehend transitive sentences containing full nouns and pronouns in subject position (Gertner et. al. 2006; Hirsh-Pasek &
Foursha-Stevenson Cassandra D. +3 more
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Personal pronouns are one of the characteristics that distinguishes each language from others. Personal pronouns are linguistic elements that refer to self-referential words.
Fahri Delfariyadi +1 more
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Cases of apparent enclisis on past participles in Romance varieties
This paper deals with cases of apparent enclisis on past participles in North-Western Italian varieties. It is claimed that these cases do not involve clitic pronouns, but weak pronouns in the sense of Cardinaletti and Starke (1999).
Anna Cardinaletti
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