This paper presents a corpus-based investigation of the use of zero pronouns in Hindi. After establishing that the antecedents of these null arguments cannot be recovered syntactically (Rizzi, 1982; Jaeggli & Safir, 1989), I propose an account in terms of "Centering Theory" (Grosz et al., 1995). Given the Hindi-specific centering constraints proposed in Prasad & Strube (2000), I argue that the ...

This study investigates the impact of zero pronominal anaphora for Romanian on a learning model able to distinguish between translated and non-translated texts. Even though the correct understanding of ellipsis from the source language and its mapping into the target language is essential in the translation process, zero pronominal anaphora has been scarcely investigated in the context of trans...

On Processing Models and Their Complexity Several commentators ask how our proposal fits within a larger theory of language interpretation and processing, so let us start there. Following Rohde, Levy & Kehler (2011) and others, we envision our results situated in a strongly incremental theory, one in which both sentence-level and discourse-level decisions are made utilizing a broad variety of i...

Psychological investigations of pronoun resolution have implicitly assumed that the processes involved automatically provide a unique referent for every pronoun. We challenge this assumption and propose a new framework for studying pronoun resolution. Drawing on advances in discourse representation and global memory modeling, this framework suggests that automatic processes may not always ident...

This paper used self-paced reading to test processing preferences in pronoun interpretation in English two clause sentences. The results demonstrate that people’s preferences can be reversed by changing the coherence relation between the clauses. The results are not compatible with the existence of a single all-purpose strategy in pronoun resolution. Rather, the results support Kehler’s (2002) ...

The phonological feature [±stress] distinguishes between strong pronouns (which are capitalized here and henceforth) and others. The semantic feature [±animate] distinguishes between what I call unstressed pronouns and weak pronouns (cf. Cardinaletti & Starke (1996)). The phonological feature [±reduced] distinguishes between weak pronouns and reduced pronouns; the only reduced pronoun in Standa...

This article explored the use of Indonesian pronouns by young people in Indonesia. The way which they erodes culture encoded pronouns. They kamu (you, second-person singular pronoun), kalian plural kita (we (you and me), first-person kami (not including you), pronoun) that do not comply with grammar. data was collected observing language used among younger generation online everyday speech. ana...

This study investigates the effect of coherence relations and accent on pronoun reference. Participants heard sentences like John saw Jeff, and Jane called him, and indicated which noun the pronoun referred to. Here, the pronoun is said to be ambiguous because it can refer either to John or to Jeff. The sentences had one of two different types of coherence relations (Kehler, 2002), and were var...