Correcting Pretentious Pronouns

Emphatic Pronouns*

Translations of Ambiguous Hindi Pronouns to Possible Bengali Pronouns

In a Hindi to Bengali transfer based machine translation system the baseline lexical transfer module replaces a Hindi word by its most frequent Bengali translation. Some pronouns in Hindi can have multiple translations in Bengali. The choices of actual translations have big impact on the accessibility of the translated sentence. The list of Hindi pronouns is small and their corresponding Bengal...

Repeated Names, Overt Pronouns, and Null Pronouns in Spanish.

In two self-paced, sentence-by-sentence reading experiments we examined the difference in the processing of Spanish discourses with repeated names, overt pronouns, and null pronouns in emphatic and non-emphatic contexts. In Experiment 1, repeated names and overt pronouns caused a processing delay when they referred to salient antecedents in non-emphatic contexts. In Experiment 2, both processin...

Pretentious Multiplicative Functions and an Inequality for the Zeta-Function

We note how several central results in multiplicative number theory may be rephrased naturally in terms of multiplicative functions f that pretend to be another multiplicative function g. We formalize a ‘distance’ which gives a measure of such pretentiousness, and as one consequence obtain a curious inequality for the zeta-function. A common theme in several problems in multiplicative number th...

Large Character Sums: Pretentious Characters and the Pólya-vinogradov Theorem

There has been no subsequent improvement in this inequality other than in the implicit constant. Moreover it is believed that (1.1) will be difficult to improve since it is possible (though highly unlikely) that there is an infinite sequence of primes q ≡ 3 (mod 4) for which (pq ) = 1 for all p < q , in which case M(( · q )) √ q log q. The unlikely possibility described above involves a quadrat...