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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Anaphor"”.
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A shallow processing approach to anaphor resolution
… an investigation of the feasibility of resolving anaphors in natural language texts by means of a "shallow processing" approach which exploits knowledge of syntax, semantics and local focussing as heavily as possible; it does not rely on the presence of large amounts of world or domain knowledge, …
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Effects of Expectancy and Context an Anaphor Resolution in Older and Younger Adults
… to earlier text, which is often accomplished via anaphoric expressions (e.g., a pronoun referring to a previous noun). Some early work has suggested that aging brings about increased difficulty in resolving anaphoric expressions; however, little work has examined the effects of aging on the …
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Agreement restrictions in Mandarin long-distance binding
… Constraint (PCC). I argue that ziji is a SE anaphor that is syntactically bound through the agreement system and that the PCC blocking effect emerges when intervention effects disrupt the agreement system that mediates the binding relationship between an anaphor and its antecedent. The …
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Behavioral and neural correlates of deep and surface anaphora
Anaphora in language is defined as an expression that refers to another expression. Hankamer & Sag 1976 and Sag & Hankamer 1984 proposed that anaphors can be divided into deep anaphors, which are resolved using a non-linguistic discourse-level interpretation of the antecedent, and surface anaphors, …
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TAAN, KO(N) and ANAPHORIC DEPENDENCIES IN TAMIL
… thesis aims to explain the distribution of Tamil anaphor taan. The exigency for this arises from the fact that the two predominant theories of anaphora, Standard Binding Theory (SBT) (Chomsky 1981) and the Reflexivity Framework (Reinhart & Reuland 1993) are unable to satisfactorily categorize …
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A study of the Japanese reflexive pronouns, zibun and zibun-zisin
The behavior of various types of anaphors may be classified into two types, local and long-distance anaphors. The English reflexive 'himself' and the Japanese reflexive 'zibun' representatively characterize the two types of anaphors. They contrast in that 'himself' is a local anaphor, whereas …
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Interpreting Chinese Zero Anaphors Within Topic Continuity
… alternative theory for interpreting Chinese zero anaphors. They can be applied in teaching Chinese as a foreign language, and in translations between Chinese and other languages, such as English, in which the phenomenon of zero anaphor does not exist.
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Coreference processing in L1 and L2
… able to resolve coreference relations between an anaphor and its antecedent. Theoretical and empirical evidence has suggested that discourse entities differ in their relative accessibility, and that this guides the choice of anaphors and identification of their referent (e.g., Ariel, 1990; Walker, …
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Chains and anaphoric dependence : on reconstruction and its implications
… S-Structure representations as (1) is that the anaphor is outside the c-command domain of its understood antecedent. The basic anaphoric effect is termed connectivity. 1) [which of each other's friends][did the men see t]? Chapter 1 is a brief overview of the necessary definitions presumed in …
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ANAPHORA, AGREEMENT AND THE PRAGMATICS OF "RIGHT DISLOCATIONS" IN GREEK
… THAT HOLD BETWEEN THE CLITIC AND/OR ZERO ANAPHOR OF THE ANAPHONIC CLAUSE AND THE "RIGHT DISLOCATED" NP, THERE IS A RECURRENT OBSERVATION/CONCLUSION: THE INFLUENCE OF ALL RELEVANT FACTORS AND PARAMETERS ON THE ACCEPTABILITY/UNACCEPTABILITY OF "RIGHT DISLOCATIONS" IN GREEK IS DIRECTLY …
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"What does ""it"" mean anyway? Examining the time course of semantic activation in reference resolution"
… (e.g. ‘it’) are commonly studied in research on anaphoric reference, because they appear to carry out the linguistic function of referring back to an entity, while providing little or no new information about the referent. However, differing viewpoints have emerged in the psycholinguistic …
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Knowledge-rich Bridging Anaphora Resolution
Bridging anaphora resolution, the task of identifying anaphoric noun phrases (i.e., bridging anaphors) and linking them to their antecedents in a document, is crucial for machine comprehension of the relations between discourse entities for various downstream applications, such as question …
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Referring expressions in Chinese and English discourse
… determiner nei `that' has an associative anaphoric use, encoding an entity whose referent is uniquely identifiable based on what Hawkins (1978, 1991) calls P-sets, association sets. This function of nei as an associative anaphor demonstrates that its deictic function has become weak. In …
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Nominal licensing: the syntactic distribution and number interpretation of bare nominals in Wolof
… that they cannot be the antecedent of a plural anaphor. However, a plural interpretation becomes available when a nominal-internal plural feature is exponed in the form of relative complementizer or possessum agreement. The generalization is that BNs in Wolof are singular, unless plural …
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The effects of verb bias, context and tasks on mandarin Chinese reflexives
The interpretation of Mandarin reflexives can be ambiguous, especially if there are multiple possible antecedents mentioned in the context prior to the reflexives. Misunderstanding between speakers and listeners can happen if listeners misinterpret the referent of the reflexives that speakers …