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The meaning of space in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). Reference, specificity and structure in signed discourse
Barberà Altimira, Gemma. - : Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2012
In: TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa) (2012)
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The syntax of nominal expressions in articleless languages : a split DP-analysis of Croatian nouns ; Syntax der Nominalphrase in Sprachen ohne Artikel: eine Split-DP-Analyse der kroatischen Nomina
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Convention and cognition : weak definite noun phrases
Tanenhaus, Michael K.; Klein, Natalie M. (1982 - ). - : University of Rochester, 2012
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DETs in the Functional Syntax of Greek Nominals
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The structure of the DP and its reflex in Scandinavian ... : Die Struktur der DP und deren Ausprägung im Skandinavischen ...
Lohrmann, Susanne. - : Universität Stuttgart, 2010
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Caso, definitude e os sintagmas nominais no armênio ; Case, definiteness and noun phrases in Armenian
Yeghiazaryan, Lusine. - : Biblioteca Digitais de Teses e Dissertações da USP, 2010
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The structure of the DP and its reflex in Scandinavian ; Die Struktur der DP und deren Ausprägung im Skandinavischen
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The use of articles in inner and outer circle varieties of English: a comparative corpus-based study
Wahid, Ridwan, Languages & Linguistics, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW. - : University of New South Wales. Languages & Linguistics, 2009
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The Mauritian Creole Noun Phrase: Its Form and Function
Diana Guillemin. - : The University of Queensland, English, Media Studies and Art History, 2009
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Essays on nominal determination : from morphology to discourse management
Muller, Henrik Hoeg; Klinge, Alex. - Philadelphia : Benjamins, 2008
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Essays on nominal determination : from morphology to discourse management
Müller, Henrik Høeg; Klinge, Alex. - Amsterdam : Benjamins, 2008
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Reference resolution and discourse salience
Masharov, Mikhail; Tanenhaus, Michael K.. - : University of Rochester, 2008
Abstract: Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 2008. ; This dissertation investigates predictions from the Givenness Hierarchy and similar theories that associate different levels of discourse entities’ salience with different anaphoric forms. The experimental methodology utilizes the visual world paradigm to assess referent preferences of the three chosen anaphoric forms (indefinite, ‘a(n) N’; definite, ‘the N’; and demonstrative, ‘that N’) under conditions of developing discourse. The discourse entities’ salience is manipulated through the introduction of varying degrees of linguistic material between the antecedent and the subsequent reference. Participants followed auditory instructions to click with a computer mouse on various objects on the screen, allowing us to analyze both the online reference resolution process (eye gaze fixation proportions) as well as their final referent choices. We show that only discourse-relevant information affects discourse entities’ salience, that different referential forms react differently to such salience changes, and that the initial level of salience affects this sensitivity to change. Overall, our findings are problematic for approaches that use a single dimension, such as salience, to associate different referring expressions with their preferred referents. The framework that best accommodates our results is the form-specific multiple-constraints approach advocated by Kaiser and colleagues, which proposes that while an entity’s salience is important for determining the appropriate reference, individual anaphoric forms carry their own specific constraints on the conditions of their felicitous use. Experiments 1 and 2 establish the methodology and examine the change in the preferred referent for different referential forms under changing discourse conditions. We also examine how the initial salience of a discourse entity affects reference resolution by having the discourse introduce a potential referent as either the Theme (Experiment 1) or the Goal (Experiment 2). The results demonstrate that different anaphoric forms are affected differently by the dynamically changing discourse conditions. The initial preference for all anaphors was for the salient discourse mentioned entity, with increasing intervening material facilitating acceptance of the low-salience unmentioned entity as the intended referent. This effect was the strongest for indefinites and the weakest for demonstratives. Experiment 3 investigates possible reasons for the preference of indefinites for the mentioned referents. The experiment evaluated the hypothesis that an indefinite prefers to refer to one of several low-salience potential referents by creating a situation where the set of possible referents includes two identical low-salience items. The results of this experiment largely replicate the results from Experiments 1 and 2, which suggests that the indefinite form is interpreted in line with an ‘any’ interpretation rather than in line with the Givenness Hierarchy predictions. In Experiment 4 we investigate the same questions with more structured, schematic scenes, a narrative discourse, and a scene verification task. We use dynamic scene changes during the narrative description to manipulate the alternatives that participants had to consider in making their response. The results confirm earlier findings – the indefinite form resolved equally well to mentioned and non-mentioned referents, while the demonstrative reference did not accept a non-mentioned entity as a possible referent. We also investigate the possibility of evaluating the relative salience of discourse entities directly by using a change blindness paradigm. This manipulation suggests the feasibility of monitoring discourse representations through non-linguistic means.
Keyword: Definiteness; Eye movements; Givenness hierarchy; Mental representation
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1802/6209
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Article Omission and Overuse: Syntax and Semantics of the English Article System in Interlanguage Grammar
Jun Matoba. - : The University of Queensland, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, 2008
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Free choice in and out of context : semantics and distribution of French, Greek and English free choice Items
Vlachou, Evangelia. - Utrecht : LOT, 2007
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Nominal determination : typology, context constraints, and historical emergence
Stark, Elisabeth; Leiss, Elisabeth; Abraham, Werner. - Amsterdam [u.a.] : Benjamins, 2007
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The Old English Demonstrative: A Synchronic and Diachronic Investigation
Stevens, Jon. - : The Ohio State University, 2007
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On the syntax of Chinese nominals
Ji, Huimin. - : uga, 2007
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Translation of Chinese Zero NPs into English: Identifying the Invisible (In) definiteness
Zhang, Rona. - : The University of Queensland, School of Languages and Cultures, 2007
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Non-definiteness and plurality
Vogeleer, Svetlana. - Amsterdam [u.a.] : Benjamins, 2006
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Indefinites and the type of sets
Landman, Fred. - Oxford : Blackwell, 2004
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