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Functional anaphoric expressions are referring expressions whose references are identified with respect to references of other objects in a discourse. Among a few types of functional anaphoric expressions such as Wh expressions, definite descriptions provide a locution for functional expressions. A typical example is as follows: (1) Every book about Picasso made the author rich. In (1), 'the au...

bination of anaphoric and metonymic inferences is chosen. Another problem with Norvig' s approach relates to the fact that insufficient results from the inference processes do not trigger additional computations in order to try yet another, perhaps not so obvious analysis. If, e.g., for reasons whatsoever no anaphoric inference is found for a definite noun phrase, Norvig' s system does not atte...

The present research focuses on how children integrate the antecedent of different kinds of anaphor into their on-going interpretation of an utterance, and on the kinds of cues they use to help them to do this. Theae issues were studied by examining the on-line processing of three types of anaphoric devices -repeated noun phrases, general terms and pronoun anaphors. The data showed that by the ...

Analogical counterfactuals such as “If I were you, I would do so and so...” create a puzzle for philosophical semantics. Whereas the ‘received view’ in philosophical semantics has it that the first person pronoun always refers to its utterer, one may wonder whether this is still the case when the first person pronoun is embedded in analogical counterfactuals such as (2) “If I were you, I would ...

Language learners are often faced with a scenario where the data allow multiple generalizations, even though only one is actually correct. One promising solution to this problem is that children are equipped with helpful learning strategies that guide the types of generalizations made from the data. Two successful approaches in recent work for identifying these strategies have involved (i) expa...

We have argued extensively in prior work that discourse connectives can be analyzed as encoding predicate-argument relations whose arguments derived from the interpretation of discourse units. All adverbial connectives we have analyzed to date have expressed binary relations. But they are special in taking one of their two arguments structurally, and the other, anaphorically. As such, interpret...

Behavioral studies investigating the influence of the relative word frequency of antecedent nouns on the processing of anaphoric pronouns have yielded contradictory results. While some researchers found no effect of an antecedent's frequency of occurrence on coreference resolution [J. Simner, R. Smyth, Phonological activation in anaphoric lexical access (ALA), Brain Lang. 68 (1999) 40-45], othe...