Demonstrative Pronouns as Anti-Logophoric Pronouns: An Experimental Investigation

Hinterwimmer, Stefan; Brocher, Andreas; Patil, Umesh

doi:10.5087/dad.2020.204

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“…In general, it has been claimed that PPros prefer, whereas DPros disprefer the most salient or prominent referent (Bosch, Rozario, & Zhao, 2003). Here, prominence is computed in terms of subjecthood (Bosch, Katz, & Umbach, 2007;Kaiser, 2011), agenthood (Schumacher, Dangl, & Uzun, 2016;Schumacher, Roberts, & Järvikivi, 2017), order of mention (Schumacher et al, 2016;Bader & Portele, 2019), topicality Hinterwimmer, 2015), perspective taking (Hinterwimmer & Bosch, 2018;Hinterwimmer, Brocher, & Patil, 2020), or a combination of more than one of these factors (Schumacher, Backhaus, & Dangl, 2015;Portele & Bader, 2016 among others).…”

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Modeling prominence constraints for German pronouns as weighted retrieval cues

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Schumacher²

2022

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We propose an ACT-R model of processing German personal and demonstrative pronouns. The model extends existing cue-based retrieval models of sentence processing (Lewis & Vasishth, 2005; Lewis et al. 2006) and pronoun resolution (Parker & Phillips, 2017; Patil & Lago, 2021) by adding prominence constraints as weighted retrieval cues. We model data from an antecedent selection task reported in Schumacher et al. (2016). The experiment varied word orders (canonical vs. non-canonical) and verb types (active accusative vs. dative experiencer) to test the effect of varying referential prominence on antecedent preferences for personal and demonstrative pronouns. The model with weighted prominence cues captures key effects across two word orders and verb types, and demonstrates that the contrastive antecedent preferences of personal and demonstrative pronouns can be captured using weighted retrieval cues reflecting prominence constraints.

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Modeling prominence constraints for German pronouns as weighted retrieval cues

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2022

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“…The latter come in two varieties: the der/die/das series and the dieser/diese/dieses series. Since diese pronouns are largely confined to the formal register (see Patil et al, 2020 for recent discussion), we will set them aside for the purposes of this paper and concentrate on the contrast between PPros and demonstrative pronouns of the der/die/das variety, which we will henceforth refer to as DPros.…”

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“…the proposition denoted by the respective sentence is interpreted as the content of a mental state of the topical referent, where that mental state need not be a conscious thought but can also be a state of perceiving. Evidence for this assumption is provided by the following observation (see Hinterwimmer et al, 2020 for additional empirical evidence): In the variant of (5) (repeated here as (8a)) given in (8b), where the second sentence is construed in such a way that it clearly expresses an evaluative comment by the speaker or narrator, the DPro can easily be understood as picking up Paul.…”

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On the Interaction of Gestural and Linguistic Perspective Taking

Hinterwimmer¹,

Patil²,

Ebert³

2021

Front. Commun.

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In this paper, we investigate the question of whether and how perspective taking at the linguistic level interacts with perspective taking at the level of co-speech gestures. In an experimental rating study, we compared test items clearly expressing the perspective of an individual participating in the event described by the sentence with test items which clearly express the speaker’s or narrator’s perspective. Each test item was videotaped in two different versions: In one version, the speaker performed a co-speech gesture in which she enacted the event described by the sentence from a participant’s point of view (i.e. with a character viewpoint gesture). In the other version, she performed a co-speech gesture depicting the event described by the sentence as if it was observed from a distance (i.e. with an observer viewpoint gesture). Both versions of each test item were shown to participants who then had to decide which of the two versions they find more natural. Based on the experimental results we argue that there is no general need for perspective taking on the linguistic level to be aligned with perspective taking on the gestural level. Rather, there is clear preference for the more informative gesture.

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Effect of evaluative expressions on two types of demonstrative pronouns in German

Patil,

Hinterwimmer,

Schumacher

2023

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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We propose a unified prominence-based account of the two paradigms of demonstrative pronouns in German: the die- and diese-paradigm. The two types of demonstrative pronouns have been shown to have similar referential preferences — avoiding the most prominent referent — but different language register and modality preferences — diese pronouns prefer formal language whereas die pronouns prefer informal language and the spoken modality. They also reveal different strengths in terms of referential shift and last-mentioned antecedent preference. We propose that the perspectival prominence-based account initially proposed by Hinterwimmer & Bosch (2016; 2017) for die pronouns can be extended to incorporate both demonstrative pronouns. Our extended proposal suggests that the perspectivally prominent discourse referent is the highest ranked element on the prominence scale only for die pronouns but not for diese pronouns, and that perspectival prominence can be modulated by evaluative expressions. For diese pronouns, on the other hand, the aboutness topic is the highest ranked discourse referent on the prominence scale and they are not influenced by evaluative expressions. We report two experiments to test our account. The experimental results largely support the predictions of the new unified account. 

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Demonstrative Pronouns as Anti-Logophoric Pronouns: An Experimental Investigation

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Modeling prominence constraints for German pronouns as weighted retrieval cues

Modeling prominence constraints for German pronouns as weighted retrieval cues

On the Interaction of Gestural and Linguistic Perspective Taking

Effect of evaluative expressions on two types of demonstrative pronouns in German

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