the study of internal structure and functions of pronouns across languages can be useful for typological, theoretical as well as descriptive studies. personal pronouns in iranian languages and dialects have been investigated in the present study. the study has indicated that the pronouns are in clitic as well as free morphemes. the study also indicated that the languages and dialects benefit fr...

In this paper, we present a method of estimating referents of demonstrative pronouns, personal pronouns, and zero pronouns in Japanese sentences using examples, surface expressions, topics and foci. Unlike conventional work which was semantic markers for semantic constraints, we used examples for semantic constraints and showed in our experiments that examples are as useful as semantic markers....

We report three experiments on reference resolution in Dutch. The results of two off-line experiments and an eye-tracking study suggest that the interpretation of different referential forms*in particular, ‘‘emphatic’’ strong pronouns, weak pronouns, and demonstrative pronouns*cannot be satisfactorily explained in terms of a single feature of the antecedent. The findings show that while the dif...

The relationship between pronoun production and interpretation has been proposed to follow Bayesian principles, combining a comprehender’s expectation about which referent will be mentioned next their estimate of how likely it is that potential re-mentioned using pronoun. Model received support from studies in several languages (English, Mandarin Chinese, Catalan, German), but tested contexts h...

One of the most fundamental, yet often overlooked, components language is personal pronoun system. Pronouns reveal and empower different perspectives, providing insight into even altering how a person conceptualizing self. Here, we illustrate pronouns “I,” “you,” “we” can enable shifts in perspective that bring further from, or closer to, others. We additionally highlight implications these on ...

In order to produce coherent text, natural language generation systems must have the ability to generate pronouns in the appropriate places. In the past, pronoun usage was primarily investigated with respect to the accessibility of referents. That is, it was assumed that a pronoun should be generated whenever the referent was sufficiently accessible so as to make its resolution easy. We found t...