When bilinguals process written language, they show delays in accessing lexical items relative to monolinguals. The present study investigated whether this effect extended to spoken language comprehension, examining the processing of sentences with either low or high semantic constraint in both first and second languages. English-German bilinguals, German-English bilinguals and English monoling...

An important concern in language acquisition research is that behavior on a given task can be indicative both of children’s underlying knowledge and of their ability to deploy that knowledge. Therefore, to accurately uncover the nature of children’s grammatical knowledge, it is necessary to take into account variability in deployment processes. In this study, we will use children’s acquisition ...

This paper presents novel psycholinguistic evidence on the factors governing pronoun resolution in German. To determine the relative influence of linear order versus grammatical function of potential referents in the German Mittelfeld on pronoun interpretation, an interpretation-preference task was run on 23 German natives. Subjects chose the preferred referent for fully ambiguous personal pron...

This research is a sociolinguistics study which explore the relationship between language and society. The aims of to identify kind address terms used in English Enrekang Durinese based on daily conversation. method this descriptive qualitative. data obtained by Recording interviewing done Massenrempulu people Duri, Alla’ Sub-district, District. from Movie Series contain utterance terms.The res...

For some language pairs, pronoun translation is a discourse-driven task which requires information that lies beyond its local context. This motivates the task of predicting the correct pronoun given a source sentence and a target translation, where the translated pronouns have been replaced with placeholders. For crosslingual pronoun prediction, we suggest a neural network-based model using pre...

We present our systems for the WMT 2016 shared task on cross-lingual pronoun prediction. The main contribution is a classifier used to determine whether an instance of the ambiguous English pronoun “it” functions as an anaphoric, pleonastic or event reference pronoun. For the English-to-French task the classifier is incorporated in an extended baseline, which takes the form of a source-aware la...

This paper investigates three linguistic features—wawation, the 1CS genitive clitic pronoun, and relative pronoun—that are shared between ancient epigraphic forms of Arabic modern dialects, to exclusion Classical Arabic. I suggest that these features represent earliest layer dialects.

Reduced forms such as the pronoun he provide little information about their intended meaning compared to more elaborate descriptions lead singer of Coldplay. Listeners must therefore use contextual recover meaning. Across languages, there appears be a trade-off between informativity form and prominence its referent. For example, Italian adults generally interpret informationally empty null pron...