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A Bayesian Approach to German Personal and Demonstrative Pronouns
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In: Front Psychol (2022)
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When faced with an ambiguous pronoun, an addressee must interpret it by identifying a suitable referent. It has been proposed that the interpretation of pronouns can be captured using Bayes’ Rule: P(referent|pronoun) ∝ P(pronoun|referent)P(referent). This approach has been successful in English and Mandarin Chinese. In this study, we further the cross-linguistic evidence for the Bayesian model by applying it to German personal and demonstrative pronouns, and provide novel quantitative support for the model by assessing model performance in a Bayesian statistical framework that allows implementation of a fully hierarchical structure, providing the most conservative estimates of uncertainty. Data from two story-continuation experiments showed that the Bayesian model overall made more accurate predictions for pronoun interpretation than production and next-mention biases separately. Furthermore, the model accounts for the demonstrative pronoun dieser as well as the personal pronoun, despite the demonstrative having different, and more rigid, resolution preferences.
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URL: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.672927 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8927811/
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Pronoun interpretation in Mandarin Chinese follows principles of Bayesian inference
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In: PLoS (2021)
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Pronoun interpretation in Mandarin Chinese follows principles of Bayesian inference
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In: PLoS One (2020)
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Reconsidering asymmetries in voice-mismatched VP-ellipsis
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 4, No 1 (2019); 60 ; 2397-1835 (2019)
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On QUD-based Licensing of Strict and Sloppy Ambiguities
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In: Semantics and Linguistic Theory; Proceedings of SALT 25; 512-532 ; 2163-5951 (2016)
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On the Presuppositional Behavior of Coherence-Driven Pragmatic Enrichments
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In: Semantics and Linguistic Theory; Proceedings of SALT 26; 961-979 ; 2163-5951 (2016)
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A probabilistic reconciliation of coherence-driven and centering-driven theories of pronoun interpretation
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