| Pronouns in Catalan: Games of Partial Information and the Use of Linguistic Resources. | |
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PMID: 20161616 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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This paper investigates the variation between null and overt subject pronouns in Catalan, a null subject language. We account for this variation in game-theoretical terms: that is, we analyze the distribution of both overt and null pronouns as a result of the strategic interaction between participants in a communicative exchange.First, we examine the Position of Antecedent Hypothesis (PAH), as put forward by Carminati (2002). This hypothesis proposes that null and overt pronouns have different biases: null pronouns prefer antecedents in subject positions, while overt pronouns prefer antecedents in non-subject positions. Carminati (2002) tested the PAH for Italian in a variety of intrasentential contexts. In this paper, we show experimentally that the PAH also holds for Catalan even in across-sentence contexts. In the second place, we also show how the PAH can be naturally redefined as a game of partial information, in which speaker and hearer are trying to communicate. This redefinition does not just translate the PAH into a different notation, but it extends the PAH into a model that makes more accurate predictions, since it can account also for the cases in which the biases predicted by the PAH are not obeyed. |
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Authors:
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Laia Mayol; Robin Clark |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE |
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Title: Journal of pragmatics Volume: 42 ISSN: 1879-1387 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2010 Mar |
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Created Date: 2010-7-13 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9877612 Medline TA: J Pragmat Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: 781-799 Citation Subset: - |
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619 Williams Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. |
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R01 NS044266-01A2//NINDS NIH HHS |
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