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When “He” Can Also Be “She”: An ERP Study of Reflexive Pronoun Resolution in Written Mandarin Chinese [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 The gender information in written Chinese third person pronouns is not symmetrically encoded: the character for he (他, with semantic radical 人, meaning human) is used as a default referring to every individual, while the character for she (她, with ...
Nicola Molinaro +2 more
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The Sarikoli reflexive pronoun
Open Linguistics, 2015 This paper describes χɯ, the Sarikoli reflexive personal and possessive pronoun, in terms of its agreement, relative prominence, and domain. The reflexive χɯ does not overtly agree with its antecedent, always maintaining the same form.
Kim Deborah
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Comprehension priming in Chinese EFL learners’ reflexive pronoun interpretation [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyReflexive interpretation is a pivotal aspect of discourse comprehension, which usually reveals consistent challenges for Chinese EFL learners. These learners often breach the locality constraint of reflexive pronouns, exhibiting a persistent tendency ...
Lianrui Yang, Zimiao Song, Yinxia Wei
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Reflexive pronoun resolution in Portuguese: testing similarity-based interference
Frontiers in Language SciencesIn the present study, we test whether, during reflexive pronoun resolution, structural cues guide both the language processing system and its underlying memory-based mechanisms or whether the latter might be influenced by non-structural cues as well ...
Paula Luegi +5 more
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The Semantics of the Reflexive Pronoun Constructions
Procedia, Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014 AbstractMeanings that occur in the reflexive constructions (verb + reflexive sebja ‘self’) are considered in the paper on the basis of verbs of motion, mental, emotional and speech verbs. “Ordinary” pronouns do not initiate changes in meaning, but reflexive ones, on the contrary, can do it.
G. Kustova
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Lingua Cultura, 2021 The research aimed to describe the reflexive pronoun of the language of the Bidayuh-Somu and English in terms of its formation process. The research data were reflexive pronoun of the Bidayuh-Somu language taken from the dissertation and the English ...
Eusabinus Bunau
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Reflexive pronouns in Spanish Universal Dependencies [PDF]
Proces. del Leng. Natural, 2020 In this paper, we argue that in current Universal Dependencies treebanks, the annotation of Spanish reflexives is an unsolved problem, which clearly affects the accuracy and consistency of current parsers.
Degraeuwe, Jasper, Goethals, Patrick
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Discourse prominence effects on interpretation of reflexive pronoun “ziji” in children with ASD
Reading and Writing, 2022 The core of language disorders in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is the loss of social function in language communication.Futher, the correct use and processing of personal pronouns is the basis of language social function.
Yanhong Wu
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The Dynamics of a Japanese Reflexive Pronoun [PDF]
JSAI Workshops, 2007 This paper is concerned with the interpretation of the 'long-distance reflexive' zibun. I propose a new way to handle this item designed to account for intersentential binding facts. The account is couched within a version of dynamic semantics enriched with a notion of perspective.
E. McCready
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Rate of speech affects the comprehension of pronouns in children with developmental language disorder [PDF]
Frontiers in Language SciencesThis study examined whether children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) have knowledge of binding principles (i.e., linking pronouns to their structurally licensed antecedent) during real-time sentence processing (cross-modal priming, real-time ...
Noelle Abbott +4 more
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