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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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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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Language Change in Cuban Spanish: Subject Pronoun Variation [PDF]
This lecture by Gabriela G. Alfaraz examines the Cuban variety of subject pronoun expression in Spanish, and the linguistic and social factors that influenced the variation of the forms.
Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University
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Null subject pronouns in Papiá Kristang (Malacca Creole Portuguese)
This paper investigates variation in the subject pronoun expression (SPE) in Papiá Kristang (Malacca Creole Portuguese), a language without verb inflection. Previous accounts of Kristang (Baxter, 1988, 2012b; Hancock, 1969, 1973; Knowlton, 1964; R&
Alan Norman Baxter +1 more
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Overt and Null Subject Variation in Ammani Arabic: Distribution, Constraints, and Implications
Purpose. This article investigates the distribution of overt and null subject pronouns in Ammani Arabic (AA) from a variationist perspective, identifying social and linguistic constraints that shape pronoun expression. The study examines how age, gender,
Рахаф Хатер +3 more
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The present study investigates subject expression in two generations of Portuguese migrants living in Hamburg, Germany. Based on a corpus of oral speech, we aim to assess whether second generation heritage speakers (HSs) differ from first generation ...
Cristina Flores, Esther Rinke
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ESTUDIO SOCIOLINGÜÍSTICO DE LA EXPRESIÓN PRONOMINAL EN CALI [PDF]
Esta investigación sociolingüística analiza la expresión variable de sujetos pronominales (ESP) en el corpus PRESEEA-Cali, Colombia, estratificado por género, edad y nivel educativo del hablante. Exploramos 6409 muestras para analizar los efectos de seis
Rafael Orozco +2 more
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Left dislocation in Zulu [PDF]
This paper examines left dislocation constructions in Zulu, a Southern Bantu language belonging to the Nguni group (Zone S 40). In Zulu left dislocation configurations, a topic phrase in the beginning of the sentence is linked to a resumptive element ...
Zeller, Jochen
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So That All May Speak: Inviting All to Describe Themselves in the L2 French Classroom [PDF]
In this article, I examine two focal students of L2 French whose curiosity and embodied learning inspired me to rethink my teaching about personal gender expression and grammatical gender and to develop curricular innovations that would open up pathways ...
Heidenfeldt, William Allen
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This article focuses on the variation of subject expression in modal constructions of necessity with pitää ‘must, have to’ in Finnish everyday conversations.
Mikael Varjo
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