Upalaksana and “Referential Use”

The Relationship between Extraversion/Introversion and the Use of Strategic Competence in Oral Referential Communication

    This study investigates the relationship between extraversion/introversion personality dimension and the use of strategic competence (SC) in oral referential communication by Iranian EFL learners. Referential communication refers to a kind of guided communication in which the referents (or topics) are given to the speakers to convey their meanings to the listeners. 50 sophomore English stud...

The Referential Versus Non-referential Use of the Neuter Pronoun in Dutch and English

This paper discusses a corpus-based investigation of the distribution of the thirdperson neuter singular pronoun in Dutch (“het”). We labeled all pronominal occurrences of “het” in a large corpus of documents. On the basis of the annotated corpora, we developed an automatic classification system using machine learning techniques to distinguish between the different uses of the neuter pronoun. A...

Making Use of Similarity in Referential Semantics

Similarity is well-known to be a core concept of human cognition, e.g., in categorization and learning. Therefore, expressions of similarity in natural language are of special interest: How to account for their meaning including the results on similarity in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence without abandoning referential semantics? In this paper we will lay out a framework connectin...

Perspectives and the Referential Use of Definite Descriptions in Dialogue

Infants Use Social Signals to Learn from Unfamiliar Referential Cues

Infants are bombarded with a bewildering array of events to learn. In such an environment, referential cues (e.g., gestures or symbols) highlight which events infants should learn. Although many studies have documented which referential cues guide attention and learning during infancy, few have investigated how this learning occurs. The present eyetracking study provides clear evidence for a so...