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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"anaphors"”.
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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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Behavioral and neural correlates of deep and surface anaphora
… & 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, which are resolved by accessing their antecedents at a linguistic level which is highly …
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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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The secret life of pronouns
… of data primarily from Russian. I argue that anaphors and pronominals are underlyingly the same syntactic entity, an index, whereas conditions A and B of binding theory should be substituted by principles regulating the spell-out of an anaphoric element as a reflexive or a pronominal. Through …
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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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Coreference processing in L1 and L2
… and that this guides the choice of anaphors and identification of their referent (e.g., Ariel, 1990; Walker, Joshi, & Prince, 1998). According to the accessibility account, there is an inverse relation between the accessibility of a discourse entity and the degree of reduction of an …
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The sensitive period for second language acquisition: An experimental study of age effects on universal grammar and language transfer
… Principle and the Binding Principle for Anaphors in English.
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TAAN, KO(N) and ANAPHORIC DEPENDENCIES IN TAMIL
… a pronominal. R&Rb s categories of SE and SELF anaphors also fail to account for taan. On the other hand, we show that adapting Sellb s (1987) theory of logophoricity is a lot more fruitful. An important corollary of our analysis is that taan is a logophoric pronoun. We show that not only can …
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Binding Interpretations in Adult Bilingualism: A Study of Language Transfer in L2 Learners and Heritage Speakers of Korean
Two anaphors (caki and caki-casin) were investigated to test core vs. exempt binding of Korean. Two experiments were conducted --- one with Truth Value Judgment with stories, which tests core binding properties such as size of Governing Category (Manzini and Wexler 1987) and Sub-command (Tang …
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Understanding the role of referential processing in sentence complexity
… load imposed by relating noun phrase (NP) anaphors to their antecedents and to discover the ramifications of increased referential processing load on behavioral measures of language comprehension. Four questionnaire experiments tested the intuitive complexity of doubly nested sentences …
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Semantic and pragmatic language development in typical acquisition, autism spectrum disorders, and Williams syndrome with reference to developmental neurogenetics of the latter
… and definite determiners, as well as 'that', anaphors 'another' and 'same', and free relative clauses. The results in this thesis suggest that in typically developing (TD) children the late acquisition of determiner 'the' is due to the late maturation of the semantic principle of maximality. …
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Knowledge-rich Bridging Anaphora Resolution
… 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 answering and dialogue systems. Bridging resolution …
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Dynamics of plurality in quantification and anaphora
… to the semantics of the pronominal number of anaphors, the identification of plural terms across languages, and the plurality constraint of plural readings. Second, it is further argued that the number markings of head nouns and verbs are semantically uninterpretable. Third, the proposed …
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In Summaries and Diagrams: Teaching Prayer and Poetry in Lancelot Andrewes and Edmund Spenser
… thanksgiving. Chapter three uses grammatical anaphors and abridgements in Andrewes’s Passion sermons and the Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine to derive a theory of accommodated reading based on metaphorical sizes and imaginary dimensions. My final chapter reads the ballad-stanza ‘Arguments’ …
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Locality in A-movement
… rules out the object clitic derivation for anaphors because an anaphoric object checks Case in a multiple-specifier configuration with the would-be antecedent. I adopt a passive-like derivation for the well-formed anaphoric clitic construction, where the clitic is a categorically …
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ANAPHORA, AGREEMENT AND THE PRAGMATICS OF "RIGHT DISLOCATIONS" IN GREEK
"RIGHT DISLOCATIONS" IN GREEK ARE CLASSIFIED INTO SIX DIFFERENT CATEGORIES REFLECTING SIX DISTRICT COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS AND ARE THUS SHOWN TO BE POWERFUL COMMUNICATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS AND/OR DEVICES, WHICH HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH EITHERAFTERTHOUGHTIVENESS OR SYNTACTIC ANOMATY. THROUGHOUT THE …