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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"reflexives"”.
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Universals of reflexives
The locality conditions on reflexives vary widely from language to language. In English, a reflexive (e.g. himself) must take a local antecedent. In contrast, in Asian languages like Chinese, a reflexive (e.g. ziji) can take an antecedent indefinitely far from its antecedent. Furthermore, in …
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The grammar of English reflexives.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1971. Ph.D.
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On the distribution of Dutch reflexives
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1996.
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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 …
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Universal Grammar and the Subset Principle in second language acquisition: The acquisition of the Governing Category Parameter by adult Korean learners of English
… investigated was the acquisition of English reflexives by adult Korean learners of English. Wexler and Manzini (1987) propose the Governing Category Parameter for which five different values have been posited to account for the differences in languages with respect to the binding pattern of …
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The acquisition of Mandarin by heritage speakers and second language learners
… marking, relative clauses, and long-distance reflexives) were chosen because they are either absent or differently encoded in English, have different AoAs in monolingual Mandarin-speaking children, and are in different linguistic domains (phonology, morpho-semantics, syntax, and …
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Working memory and prediction in human sentence parsing
… 2003). Two eye-tracking experiments on Chinese reflexives were designed to tease apart accounts assuming a syntactic-structure based memory access mechanism from cue-based retrieval (implemented in ACT-R as proposed by Lewis and Vasishth (2005). In both experiments, interference effects were …
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Universal Grammar Parameter-Setting Model Revisited: Korean Learners' Acquisition of English Anaphora
… Korean learners' acquisition of English reflexives. The major goal of the research is to evaluate the Subset Principle by comparing the research data with the predictions of the Subset Principle concerning the Governing Category Parameter and Proper Antecedent Principle. Antecedent …
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Impact of Extremely Low-Frequency Magnetic and Electric Stimuli on Vestibular-Driven Outcomes
… the vestibular system will have to look at more reflexives vestibular outcomes. Nonetheless, this thesis provides valuable information that will need to be taken into consideration when writing future international guidelines and standards related to ELF-MF.
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The structure of attitude reports : representing context in grammar
… distinction, I argue that Condition A-violating reflexives in languages like French and English are not reducible to logophors, based on their distribution, as well as other syntactic properties.
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Case, agreement and word order : issues in the syntax and acquisition of Taml
… (including verbal participles and infinitivals), reflexives, serial verbs, NP extraction and case-drop phenomena. The syntactic structuring and processes are argued to be identical in both grammars.