studies related to the second language acquisition have frequently focused on the role of mother tongue. since the learner’s knowledge in the first language provides a basis to compare it with that of second language, it is assumed that being aware of the learner’s prior knowledge is affective in the syllabus design which itself is a crucial element in teaching. in this study personal pronouns ...

This essay outlines the problems associated with the history and current absence of a genderneutral third-person singular personal pronoun in the English language. The combination of the social and grammatical consequences of this language gap results in pronoun choices that are either politically incorrect or verbose. Experts’ attempts to fill this language gap have failed to take root on any ...

Clausally introduced entities in English are more frequently accessible to reference with a demonstrative pronoun than with the personal pronoun it. This fact can be explained on the assumption that such entities are typically activated, but not brought into focus, immediately subsequent to their introduction into a discourse. However, clausally introduced entities are, in fact, sometimes refer...

Arabic is a relatively free-word order language allowing the positioning of the subject either before its owner verb or after it. Whenever the subject precedes its verb, a personal pronoun has to be associated with the verb to play the role of its subject and enable the proper construction of the full verbal sentence. Sometimes such subject pronoun is explicit, appearing as a suffix to the verb...

We present a cognitive computational model of pronoun resolution that reproduces the human interpretation preferences of the Subject Assignment Strategy and the Parallel Function Strategy. Our model relies on a probabilistic pronoun resolution system trained on corpus data. Factors influencing pronoun resolution are represented as features weighted by their relative importance. The importance t...