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Pronoun interpretation in reading
… investigated the comprehension of anaphoric pronouns in reading. Chapter, I explains the importance of this feature of text processing, and reviews the relevant psychological literature. One -important feature of pronoun interpretation is the fact that antecedents vary in accessibility in …
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(Generic Pronoun) Creates: Anarchism, Authorship, Experiment
My work develops a postanarchist literary theory that repositions the reading and writing of experimental texts as activist practice. Following the most recent trends in anarchist theory and political philosophy, postanarchist literary theory merges the primary concerns of classical anarchism with …
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PRONOUN-ANTECEDENT AGREEMENT (BINDING) IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE
… antecedents in different structural positions. Pronoun-antecedent agreement is based exclusively on the syntactic configuration of a clause in which a null pronoun is bound to a sentential subject antecedent; however, an overt pronoun retrieves an antecedent in a lower syntactic position (e.g., …
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PRONOUN-ANTECEDENT AGREEMENT (BINDING) IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE
… antecedents in different structural positions. Pronoun-antecedent agreement is based exclusively on the syntactic configuration of a clause in which a null pronoun is bound to a sentential subject antecedent; however, an overt pronoun retrieves an antecedent in a lower syntactic position (e.g., …
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The pronoun of address in Schiller's dramas
… knowledge gained by a critical study of the pronoun of address, as Schiller used it in his dramas. As far as the writer knows no one has ever written anything concerning Schiller's use of the pronoun of address, and thirdly that he used it effectively. The aims of this treatise are three: …
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Pragmatics and distribution of the Japanese reflexive pronoun zibun
… a hypothesis on the nature of Japanese reflexive pronoun zibun 'self' which explains the distribution of zibun without employing previously proposed syntactic conditions. It claims that zibun is a simple nominal expression with reflexive meaning and which is specified for number but not specified …
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The Influence of Discourse Representations on Young Children's Pronoun Interpretation
… examined whether preschoolers' comprehension of pronouns was affected by the discourse prominence of the possible antecedents. In each experiment, children listened to short stories. The final (test) sentence of each story differed in whether it continued the grammatical subject and/or …
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You and I—pronoun use and communication patterns in anxious couples
… anxiety and couple communication, anxiety and pronoun use as well as pronoun use and communication. The current study investigated the association between pronoun use and communication in the context of anxiety. One hundred and fifteen couples rated their communication with their partner and …
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the Overt Pronoun Penalty: A Processing Delay In Spanish Anaphora Comprehension
… expressions such as repeated names, overt pronouns, and null pronouns. Gordon, Grosz, and Gilliom (1993) showed that repeated names are harder to process than pronouns when the antecedent is the subject of a sentence, an effect which they called the Repeated Name Penalty (RNP). The RNP has …
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The role of structural and discourse-level cues during pronoun resolution
Pronoun resolution normally takes place without conscious effort or awareness, yet the processes behind it are far from straightforward. A large number of cues and constraints have previously been recognised as playing a role in the identification and integration of potential antecedents, yet there …
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Children's Development of Syntactic Aspects of Reading Comprehension: Pronoun-Referent Structures
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The influence of the temporal characteristics of events on children's pronoun resolution
… of events influence 7- to 11-year-olds’ pronoun resolution to identify if this might explain contradictory findings in the literature regarding the age at which children demonstrate a subject bias interpretation of a pronoun. A second goal was to determine whether children demonstrate the …
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Employee Pronoun Use In Verbatim Comments As A Predictor Of Job Attitudes And Turnover Intentions
… present study, it is hypothesized that employee pronoun use is related to job attitudes and turnover intentions, such that the use of "we" type pronouns is higher among more satisfied employees; and that the use of "non-we" type pronouns is higher among less satisfied employees. Results largely …
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The Obligatory Use of The Preposition a Plus Disjunctive Pronoun After Certain Verbs in French
… do not accept the conjunctive (indirect object) pronoun marked {+human} under certain circumstances. These include so-called verbs of motion, e.g., je vais a lui, verbs like penser, e.g., je pense a lui, and verbal expressions like faire attention, e.g., je fais attention a lui.
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The second language acquisition of subject pronoun distribution in English, Italian and Polish: testing the Interface Hypothesis
… for the second language acquisition of subject pronoun distribution in structures posited to contain i) narrow syntax and ii) syntax-discourse interface properties in three languages which vary in their realisation of these properties: English, Italian and Polish. 118 speakers of L1 English, …
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The expression of topic continuity by noun and pronoun phrasing and zero anaphora in first-year research writing
… has been no research on the use of nouns vs. pronouns vs. zero anaphora (Ø) to express cohesion by ESL students writing in English. Previous researchers of cohesion, such as Crossley and McNamara (2010) on ESL learners with varied native languages and Yang and Sun (2012) on native …
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The Effect of Pronoun Type on First and Second Language Perceptual Strategies in Hindi (India, Psycholinguistics, Acquisition, Processing, Reading)
… the distributional patterns of full and zero pronouns in written Hindi discourse, and the processing strategies employed by L1 and L2 Hindi speakers in assigning anaphoric reference.
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