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Crible, Ludivine – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
Ambiguity in discourse is pervasive, yet mechanisms of production and processing suggest that it tends to be compensated in context. The present study sets out to analyze the combination of discourse markers (such as "but" or "moreover") with other discourse signals (such as semantic relations or punctuation marks) across three…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Styles, Ambiguity (Semantics), Language Processing
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Gerrig, Richard J.; Horton, William S.; Stent, Amanda – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Theories of pronoun resolution often assume that pronouns' referents reside in the immediate discourse context. However, language users regularly produce and comprehend "unheralded pronouns" that violate that assumption. This article provides a taxonomy of unheralded pronouns that makes reference to speakers' and addressees' common ground. Data…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Computational Linguistics, Classification, Oral Language