Demonstratives in Spatial Language and Social Interaction: An Interdisciplinary Review [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 This paper offers a review of research on demonstratives from an interdisciplinary perspective. In particular, we consider the role of demonstratives in current research on language universals, language evolution, language acquisition, multimodal ...
Holger Diessel, Kenny R. Coventry
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Elevation as a Grammatical and Semantic Category of Demonstratives [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 In this paper I study semantic and pragmatic properties of elevational demonstratives by means of a typological investigation of 50 languages with elevational demonstratives from all across the globe.
Diana Forker
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Interpreting Estonian Demonstratives: The Effects of Referent’s Distance and Visual Salience [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Most of the research done with spatial demonstratives (words such as this, here and that, there) have focused on the production, not the interpretation, of these words.
Maria Reile +3 more
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Demonstrative Reference and Semantic Space: A Large-Scale Demonstrative Choice Task Study [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Spatial demonstratives (words like this and that) have been thought to primarily be used for carving up space into a peripersonal and extrapersonal domain.
Roberta Rocca +5 more
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Shrinking Your Deictic System: How Far Can You Go? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Languages around the world differ in terms of the number of adnominal and pronominal demonstratives they require, as well as the factors that impact on their felicitous use.
Mila Vulchanova +3 more
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Common Ground in Demonstrative Reference: The Case of Mano (Mande) [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 That demonstratives often have endophoric functions marking referents outside the physical space of interaction but accessible through cognition, especially memory, is well-known.
Maria Khachaturyan
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Acquisition of Demonstratives in English and Spanish [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 The present work re-evaluates the long-standing claim that demonstratives are among infants’ earliest and most common words. Although demonstratives are deictic words important for joint attention, deictic gestures and non-word vocalizations could serve ...
Patricia González-Peña +2 more
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This shoe, that tiger: Semantic properties reflecting manual affordances of the referent modulate demonstrative use. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Demonstrative reference is central to human communication. But what influences our choice of demonstrative forms such as "this" and "that" in discourse?
Roberta Rocca +2 more
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This and that revisited: A social and multimodal approach to spatial demonstratives [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 David ePeeters +2 more
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Spatial expressions in Gumer Gurage
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023 The aim of this article was to investigate spatial expressions in the Gurage variety of Gumer. The methodology used was qualitative following the structuralism approach to linguistic description.
Fekede Menuta
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