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Complex Demonstratives: A Quantificational Account
"A Bradford book."Since the late 1970s, the orthodox view of complex 'that' phrases (e.g., 'that woman eating a granola bar') has been that they are contextually sensitive devices of direct reference. In Complex Demonstratives, Jeffrey King challenges that orthodoxy, showing that quantificational accounts not only are as effective as direct reference accounts but also handle a wider range of da…
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- 9780262277174
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 207 pages).
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Computational models of referring :a study in cognitive science
"To communicate, speakers need to make it clear what they are talking about. The act of referring, which anchors words to things, is a fundamental aspect of language. In this book, Kees van Deemter shows that computational models of reference offer attractive tools for capturing the complexity of referring. Indeed, the models van Deemter presents cover many issues beyond the basic idea of refer…
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- 9780262335324
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- 1 online resource (x, 339 pages)
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processing and acquisition of reference
This book brings together contributions by prominent researchers in the fields of language processing and language acquisition on topics of common interest: how people refer to objects in the world, how people comprehend such referential expressions, and how children acquire the ability to refer and to understand reference.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295888
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- 1 online resource (vi, 443 pages) :illustrations.
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