LARVA OF ANAPHORA AGROTIPENNELLA

Discourse Anaphora

This paper reports on a model that serves anaphora resolution. A distinction will be made between possible antecedents and preferred an.tecedents. The set of linguistically possible can-didates will be detined in terms of compatibili ty and recency. Preferred antecedents are a subset of the possible antecedents, selected by the application of extralinguistic knowledge. Motivation for the partic...

A Computational Approach to Pronominal Anaphora, One- Anaphora and Surface Count Anaphora

This paper is the continuation of Ferrández [5][4] in which we have developed a computational system in Prolog (Slot Unification Parser or SUP) that includes a new grammatical formalism (Slot Unification Grammar or SUG). In this work, we are going to deal with several kinds of anaphora both in restricted and unrestricted texts: pronominal anaphora, surface count anaphora and one-anaphora. We on...

Varieties of Anaphora

Acquisition of English anaphora by Iranian EFL learners

The present study examined the acquisition of anaphora in English by Iranian EFL learners as well as Persian speaking children. To do so, the study was conducted in three phases. In the first phase, 40 intermediate female and male EFL learners were selected from Puyan Institute in Takestan, Iran. Then, an off-line based Grammatical Judgment Task was administered. In the second phase, 40 female ...

The Psycholinguistics of Anaphora