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Referentially Used Descriptions: A Reply to Devitt
European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2007 This paper continues an ongoing debate between Michael Devitt and me on referential uses of definite descriptions. He has argued that definite descriptions have referential meanings, and I have argued that they do not. Having previously rebutted the view
Kent Bach
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Classifying Referential and Non-referential It Using Gaze [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2018 When processing a text, humans and machines must disambiguate between different uses of the pronoun it, including non-referential, nominal anaphoric or clause anaphoric ones. In this paper, we use eye-tracking data to learn how humans perform this disambiguation. We use this knowledge to improve the automatic classification of it. We show that by using
Yaneva, Victoria +3 more
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Communicative Context Affects Use of Referential Prosody [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 2019 AbstractThe current study assessed the extent to which the use of referential prosody varies with communicative demand. Speaker–listener dyads completed a referential communication task during which speakers attempted to indicate one of two color swatches (one bright, one dark) to listeners.
Christina Y, Tzeng +2 more
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Use of Referential Coordinates in Deforming Soils [PDF]
Soil Science Society of America Journal, 1989 Abstract Analysis of hydrological processes in deforming soils generally involves use of some form of a referential, or material, coordinate transformation. In the most commonly used of these relationships, there appear two macroscopic soil mass density factors, that associated with the configuration of the soil ...
Philippe Baveye +2 more
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Severo Sarduy y la evocación perpetua: topónimos, gentilicios y extranjerismos en Maitreya
Confluenze, 2023 This article analyzes how Severo Sarduy uses toponyms, demonyms, and foreign loanwords in the novel Maitreya (1978). The narrator approaches these words from a deterritorialized perspective, rethinking geography as a science (toponyms), identity as a ...
Jose Dario Martinez Milantchi
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Descriptive indexicals and epistemic modality [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper I argue for a non-referential interpretation of some uses of indexicals embedded under epistemic modals. The so-called descriptive uses of indexicals come in several types and it is argued that those embedded within the scope of modal ...
Kijania-Placek, Katarzyna
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Discourse-pragmatic variation in Paris French and London English: Insights from general extenders [PDF]
, 2017 This paper examines the use of general extenders (GEs), such as and stuff in English and et tout in French, in Paris French and London English. We aim to compare the social and the linguistic conditioning of extender use in the two languages, discuss the
Secova, Maria
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Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2011 This book was published in the Linguistics Series of European University Studies, and is written in German. As the book's title suggests, this monograph is primarily a comprehensive analysis of reflexivity in spoken Standard Chinese in the framework of ...
Mateja PETROVČIČ
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Natural Language and its Ontology [PDF]
, 2019 This paper gives a characterization of the ontology implicit in natural language and the entities it involves, situates natural language ontology within metaphysics, and responds to Chomskys' dismissal of externalist ...
Moltmann, Friederike
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Developmental Science, 2022 Abstract Variation in how frequently caregivers engage with their children is associated with variation in children's later language outcomes. One explanation for this link is that caregivers use both verbal behaviors, such as labels, and non‐verbal behaviors, such as gestures, to help ...
Janet Y Bang +4 more
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