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 ...
Jui-Ju eSu +9 more
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Reflexive pronouns in Spanish Universal Dependencies [PDF]
Procesamiento del Lenguaje 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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Beyond gender stereotypes in language comprehension: self sex-role descriptions affect the brain's potentials associated with agreement processing [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 We recorded Event-Related Potentials to investigate differences in the use of gender information during the processing of reflexive pronouns. Pronouns either matched the gender provided by role nouns (such as king or engineer) or did not. We compared two
Paolo eCanal +3 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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Mandenkan, 2023 The paper deals with the emergence of reflexive pronouns in Manding and Mokole languages. Special attention is paid to the sources of grammaticalization.
Alexandra Vydrina†
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Book Review: Reflexive Pronouns: A Theoretical and Experimental Synthesis [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Li Zeng, Hao Lin, Xinmin Zheng
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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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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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Effects of person and number hierarchies on development of personal reflexive pronouns in New Persian [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2021 INTRODUCTIONThis article studies the diachronic development of reflexive pronouns derived from xod in New Persian, i.e. 10th to 20th centuries. Not in all centuries of New Persian one can find the indexation of xod by pronominal clitics and it is mostly ...
Zahra Etebari +2 more
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REFLEXIVITY, ROLE CONFLICTS, AND THE MEANING OF ENGLISH SELF PRONOUNS [PDF]
Manuscrito, 2022 This study offers an innovative, sign-based analysis of English self pronouns (myself, yourself, herself, etc.). While rejecting the traditional characterization of these forms as reflexive pronouns, the study borrows from the tradition by analyzing ...
NANCY STERN
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