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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Referential ambiguity"”.
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Syntactic and Referential Ambiguity Resolution Under Cue Competition in Silent Reading: Effects of Implicit Prosodic Cues, L1-L2 and Individual Differences
… shown to be key determinants of syntactic and referential ambiguity resolution, whereas other cues may be less influential. Similarly, not all comprehenders exhibit equal cue sensitivity; research focusing on L1-L2 differences has typically reported absent, weaker or delayed effects in L2 …
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Coreference processing in L1 and L2
… the way accessibility interacts with referential ambiguity of anaphors, and the extent to which coreference processing in L2 is guided by the same factors that operate in L1 processing. Experiments 1 and 2 (English) tested the prediction that an entity in the subject position is more …
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Preschoolers' Use of Vocal Affect as a Cue to Referential Intent
… vocal affect to guide their understanding of referential situations. Across all experiments, children’s eye gaze was measured as an index of their underlying interpretive processes. The first set of experiments examined 5-year-olds’ use of vocal affect to understand the referential intentions …
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Robots as language users: a computational model for pragmatic word learning
… of learning words in situations of extreme ambiguity, leveraging a variety of contextual knowledge to infer the targets of adults' references. And unlike children, few cognitive robotics systems have any kind of understanding of the purpose of words outside of reference. The core premise of …