Anaphora and Direct Reference: Empirical Evidence from Pointing
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چکیده
Empirical evidence from body measurements suggests that the referent of a demonstration is not directly specified, but obtained by applying a default inference rule to the region specified by the pointing cone. Building on this evidence we propose a unified theory of anaphoric and demonstrative uses in which accessibility is obtained via resource situations.
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