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Anaphora resolution and word-order across adulthood: Ageing effects on online listening comprehension

open access: yesGlossa, 2020
In this visual-world paradigm we investigated the processing and interpretation of two overt subject anaphoric expressions in Greek, a null-subject language with a relatively free word-order, in relation to specific linguistic properties and whether ...
Ana I. Pérez Muñoz   +2 more
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AGE-RELATED SEMANTIC AND STYLISTIC FUNCTIONS OF PRONOUN I-ONE IN THE SPEECH OF UPPER-CLASS ENGLISHMEN

open access: yesSovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2019
The article is devoted to the analysis of previously unstudied age-related specific in functioning of the subject pronoun I-one in the speech of British social elite.
Irina Aleksandrovna Tislenkova   +2 more
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Expression of anaphoric subjects in Vera'a: Functional and structural factors in the choice between pronoun and zero [PDF]

open access: yesLanguage Variation and Change, 2020
AbstractThe choice between a pronoun and zero anaphor for the expression of third-person subjects is examined in a corpus of Vera'a (Oceanic). While predominantly expressed by a pronoun, subjects are found to permit zero form with referents that have low anaphoric distance.
Schnell, Stefan, Barth, Danielle
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Double Subject Pronoun in the Dowsari Dialect of Saudi Arabia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Dowsari Arabic is one of the major dialects of the central zone of the Kingdom, which in many cases match the dialect of Riyadhi Arabic. In this dialect, the incorporated subject pronoun is expressed by repeating it. However, the Dowsari dialect of Saudi
Al-Asbahi, Khaled Mohammed Moqbel
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Reflexives and reflexive constructions in Afrikaans

open access: yesStellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2015
This article provides a non-formalistic description of the various reflexive pronouns in Afrikaans. In addition to the traditional class of reflexive pronouns, it is shown that possessive pronouns can also be used reflexively. The facts about (obligatory)
Oosthuizen, Johan
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Pronominalization and Expectations for Re-Mention: Modeling Coreference in Contexts With Three Referents

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2021
The relationship between pronoun production and pronoun interpretation has been proposed to follow Bayesian principles, combining a comprehender’s expectation about which referent will be mentioned next and their estimate of how likely it is that a ...
Jet Hoek    +2 more
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The Interaction Effects on the Variable Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish

open access: yesLingüística y Literatura, 2020
This research project sought to explore the non-orthogonal role of the factors that condition the use of pronominal subjects in Spanish (SPE) through a quantitative analysis of interviews, systematized by cross tabulation and trees of conditional inference, in order to explore such interaction effects.
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Role of structural priming in contact-induced change: Subject pronoun expression in L1 Turkish by Turkish-Dutch bilinguals

open access: yes, 2020
Subject pronoun expression has been extensively studied for effects of language contact, but it is fairly recent that these studies started including cross-language structural priming paradigms.
Ad Backus   +2 more
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Le mari de Jill Biden l’a emporté sur le mari de Melania : la construction référentielle dans la presse people sur Internet

open access: yesCorela, 2021
This paper is devoted to a singular use of definite descriptions in the online tabloids. Many definite descriptions, such as Jill Biden's husband to designate Joe Biden and Melania's husband to designate Donald Trump, appear unrelated to the subject ...
Mathilde Salles
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Null and overt subject biases in Spanish and Italian: a cross-linguistic comparison [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Over the last twenty years a great deal of linguistic research has investigated how anaphoric expressions retrieve their antecedents in the discourse showing that a variety of pragmatic factors together with grammatical and cognitive constraints ...
Francesca Filiaci, Filiaci, Francesca
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