Corpus, experimental and modeling investigations of cross-linguistic differences in pronoun resolution preferences
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We investigate the impact of syntactic alternatives on pronoun resolution in ambiguous constructions English and French. Previous research detected language-specific preferences utterances type “The postman met streetsweeper before he went home”. These have been attributed to interaction information structural constraints inducing a subject bias one hand, Gricean reasoning processes taking into account alternative other hand. A corpus study four French corpora shows that an construction which takes antecedent (“The going home”) is much less frequent spoken than Rational Speech Act (RSA) model with frequencies integrated as costs use each makes empirical predictions for sentences “avant”/“before” tested but also “après”/“after” not so far. New experimental data show very good fit well differences choices between English. However, showing “après” “avant” deviate from predictions, indicating more factors need be taken account. The combination Bayesian modeling, analyses RSA models can make relevant falsifiable cross-linguistic variation processing.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Glossa
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2397-1835']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1142