| Presentation | 2015-08-06 Anaphoric biases of Chinese subject pronouns Aili Zhang, Nayoung Kwon, |
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| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | Two offline rating questionnaire studies were conducted to investigate the antecedent bias of null pronouns(pro) and overt pronouns in Chinese in contextually neutral sentences and in pragmatically biased sentences. The results showed that contra Yang et al. (1999), the processing mechanisms underlying pro and overt pronouns were not identical. While both pro and overt pronouns were subject-biased regardless of contextual manipulations, pro showed a stronger subject bias than overt pronouns, which in turn were more favored to refer to the objects than pro. Overall, our results are consistent with the Accessibility theory (Ariel, 1990, Givon, 1983) that less specific anaphoric expressions (i.e., pro) are more favorably used to refer to more salient antecedents (i.e., subject). |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | anaphoric biases / Chinese / null pronouns / overt pronouns |
| Paper # | TL2015-33 |
| Date of Issue | 2015-07-29 (TL) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | TL |
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| Conference Date | 2015/8/5(2days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Tsuda College |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Human Language Processing and Learning |
| Chair | Tadahisa Kondo(Kogakuin Univ.) |
| Vice Chair | Chiaki Kubomura(Yamano College of Aesthetics) / Masami Suzuki(KDDI R&D Labs.) |
| Secretary | Chiaki Kubomura(Univ. of Tsukuba) / Masami Suzuki(Kyorin Univ.) |
| Assistant | Eiji Tomida(Ehime Univ.) / Yasushi Tsubota(Kyoto Univ.) |
| Paper Information | |
| Registration To | Technical Committee on Thought and Language |
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| Language | ENG |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | Anaphoric biases of Chinese subject pronouns |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | anaphoric biases |
| Keyword(2) | Chinese |
| Keyword(3) | null pronouns |
| Keyword(4) | overt pronouns |
| 1st Author's Name | Aili Zhang |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Konkuk University(Konkuk Univ.) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Nayoung Kwon |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Konkuk University(Konkuk Univ.) |
| Date | 2015-08-06 |
| Paper # | TL2015-33 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.115 |
| Number (no) | TL-176 |
| Page | pp.pp.83-88(TL), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2015-07-29 (TL) |