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Attributive And Referential Uses Of Basic Syntactic Constituents 1
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1979 Donnellan's distinction between attributive and referential uses of definite descriptions is extended to include Lewis' basic categories. The distinction as applied to sentences is brought out by investigating the consequences of the failure of ...
Godden, Kurt
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Referential Descriptions and Conversational Implicatures
European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2007 The standard Gricean defense of Russell in the face of referential uses of descriptions has been to claim that these uses are conversational implicatures.
Michael Devitt
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Referential Descriptions: A Note on Bach
European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2007 Bach fails to give a satisfactory pragmatic account of referential uses of definite descriptions because he does not explain how a description’s quantificational meaning plays a “key role” in those uses.
Michael Devitt
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Who Is to Believe When You Bet: on Non-Referential Indexical Functions of the Pronoun You in English
Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación, 2014 Using English-language material this paper presents an account of a number of functions of the pronoun you that are not directly related to reference. The analysis focuses on occurrences of the second-person pronoun in utterances of prediction, judgment
Katherine Hrisonopulo
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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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Reflections of Oneself: Neurocognitive Evidence for Dissociable Forms of Self-Referential Recollection [PDF]
, 2014 Research links the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) with a number of social cognitive processes that involve reflecting on oneself and other people. Here, we investigated how mPFC might support the ability to recollect information about oneself and others
Bergström, Z.M. +11 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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Making Use of Similarity in Referential Semantics [PDF]
, 2015 Similarity is well-known to be a core concept of human cognition, e.g., in categorization and learning. Therefore, expressions of similarity in natural language are of special interest: How to account for their meaning including the results on similarity in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence without abandoning referential semantics?
Helmar Gust, Carla Umbach
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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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