We report a study of referential choice in discourse production, understood as the choice between various types of referential devices, such as pronouns and full noun phrases. Our goal is to predict referential choice, and to explore to what extent such prediction is possible. Our approach to referential choice includes a cognitively informed theoretical component, corpus analysis, machine lear...

In this paper, we present a machine learning system for identifying non-referential it. Types of non-referential it are examined to determine relevant linguistic patterns. The patterns are incorporated as features in a machine learning system which performs a binary classification of it as referential or non-referential in a POS-tagged corpus. The selection of relevant, generalized patterns lea...

Drawing on optimal distinctiveness theory and Jellinek’s concept of the Normative Force Factual, we provide an alternative explanation for how normality gender imbalance in IT-driven start-ups (i.e., fact that there are far more men than women) becomes normativity (what everyone expects to see), eventually imperative those desiring enter field. We uncover process used pressure female founders I...

There is a sharp increase in depression females mid-adolescence, but we do not understand why. Cognitive theories suggest that people with have negative biases recalling self-referential information. We tested whether recall were more girls early and mid-adolescence associated depressive symptoms. 315 young 263 mid-adolescents (11-12 13-15 years) completed surprise test, assessing of social eva...

Abstract This paper is a response to Haze’s brief argument for the falsity of theory that instantial terms refer arbitrarily, proposed by Breckenridge and Magidor in 2012. In this paper, I characterise outline arbitrary reference; then reconstruct contend it fails its purpose. supposed be reductio ad absurdum: according Haze, proves contradiction follows from most basic tenets reference. will a...