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Direct linkMarkus Bader; Jacopo Torregrossa; Esther Rinke – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
This article investigates how animacy in interaction with the syntactic function of a referent's antecedent determines the interpretation of different types of pronouns and demonstratives in German and Italian. The results of a sentence continuation task conducted in both languages show that Italian null pronouns and German p-pronouns have a…
Descriptors: German, Italian, Contrastive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages)
Arita, Yuki – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
This conversation analytic study investigates the use of the Japanese contrastive marker "demo" "but" as a preface to responses to polar questions. "Demo"-prefaced responses are one type of nonconforming answers, that is, responses that provide (dis)affirmation to preceding questions without yes/no-tokens. This study…
Descriptors: Japanese, Responses, Form Classes (Languages), Speech Communication
Cokal, Derya; Filik, Ruth; Sturt, Patrick; Poesio, Massimo – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
Corpus evidence suggests that in contexts in which the presence of multiple antecedents might favor plural reference, the disadvantage observed for singular reference may disappear if the potential antecedents are combined in a group-like plural entity. We examined the relative salience of antecedents in conditions where the context either made a…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Form Classes (Languages), Semantics, Foreign Countries
Kaiser, Elsi; Wang, Catherine – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
How do we distinguish fact from opinion? We tested whether people's ability to detect opinion-based content--as indicated by the use of subjective adjectives (e.g., "amazing," "frustrating")--depends on the linguistic position of the adjective. Our results show that simply changing the linguistic structure of a sentence…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Opinions, Sentence Structure, Language Usage
Gallant, Jordan; Sluchinski, Kerry – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
This study investigated the processing of the Chinese nongendered third-person singular pronoun, "TA," in a series of self-paced reading experiments. We begin by investigating the perceived appropriateness of TA using a novel implementation of the modified maze task. We then contrasted reading latencies for TA and male- and female-gender…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Sex Stereotypes, Gender Issues
Jin, Jian; Liu, Siyun – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
Previous studies found that linguistic features can be used to predict the success of novels. However, which specific linguistic features better contribute to a novel's popularity is unclear. This study addressed this issue by investigating the linguistic features of 2,008 online Chinese fantasy novels with different popularity (indicated by the…
Descriptors: Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Popular Culture, Foreign Countries, Electronic Publishing
Yuki Arita – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
This conversation analytic study offers an empirical analysis of the Japanese turn-initial interjection "are." The interjectional "are" is said to be pragmatized from its use as a distal demonstrative and has been considered as an expression of a speaker's internal state of being surprised at something. In contrast, this study…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Usage, Japanese, Interpersonal Communication
Debreslioska, Sandra; Gullberg, Marianne – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
The study aimed to disentangle the influence of information status and referential form on the distribution of gestures in sustained discourse. Previous research shows that new and less accessible rather than old and more accessible information, expressed by rich rather than lean referential forms, is more likely to be accompanied by gestures.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Nonverbal Communication, Information Dissemination, Form Classes (Languages)
Redl, Theresa; Szuba, Agnieszka; de Swart, Peter; Frank, Stefan L.; de Hoop, Helen – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
An eye-tracking experiment was conducted with speakers of Dutch (N = 84, 36 male), a language that falls between grammatical and natural-gender languages. We tested whether a masculine generic pronoun causes a male bias when used in generic statements--that is, in the absence of a specific referent. We tested two types of generic statements by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Form Classes (Languages), Cues
Torabi Asr, Fatemeh; Demberg, Vera – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
Connectives can facilitate the processing of discourse relations by helping comprehenders to infer the intended coherence relation holding between two text spans. Previous experimental studies have focused on pairs of connectives that are very different from one another to be able to compare and formalize the distinguishing effects of these…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Form Classes (Languages), Ambiguity (Semantics), Inferences
Orita, Naho; Vornov, Eliana; Feldman, Naomi H. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
This study formalizes and compares two major hypotheses in speakers' choices of referring expressions: the topicality model that chooses a form based on the topicality of the referent, and the rational model that chooses a form based on the informativity of the form and its speech cost. Simulations suggest that both the topicality of the referent…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Speech Communication, Preferences, Form Classes (Languages)
Lee, Eun-Kyung; Lam, Tuan Q.; Watson, Duane G. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
Although it is clear that unaccented referring expressions are associated with given information in a discourse, it is less clear what aspects of givenness are relevant. We examine whether listeners' expectation of givenness depends on repetition of a referring expression or on contextual evocation of a referent. The results from two visual world…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Visual Stimuli, Eye Movements, Listening Comprehension
Andersson, Marta; Sundberg, Rolf – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
Through a structured examination of four English causal discourse connectives, our article tackles a gap in the existing research, which focuses mainly on written language production, and entirely lacks attests on English spoken discourse. Given the alleged general nature of English connectives commonly emphasized in the literature, the underlying…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English, Speech Communication, Discourse Analysis
Structural Repetition in Question Answering: A Replication and Extension of Levelt and Kelter (1982)
Chia, Katherine; Axelrod, Cara; Johnson, Chloe; Bressler, Marly; Cooperman, Hannah; Chu, Amber; Dash, Elizabeth; Di Bella, Julia; Engelhardt, Amanda; Farruggio, Victoria; Folsom, Susannah; Gomariz, Helei; Greiner, Elizabeth; Hager, Sheridan; Hansen, Nicole; Kenefick, Caroline; King, Jessica; King, Khari; Lavaud, Molly; Leone, Elizabeth; McGuire, George; Montanez, Sabrina; Morpeth, Julia; Neumann, Michael; Rivera, Daniella; Sotolongo, Nina; Sparacio, Kaitlyn; Stokes, Kacie; Tarro, Dominic; Treacy, Alysia; Wagler, Kayla; Weitzel, Sarah; Woller, Savannah; Kaschak, Michael P. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
We report an effort to replicate and extend Levelt and Kelter's (1982) Experiment 3. In their study, experimenters phoned businesses and asked, "At what time does your shop close?" or "What time does your shop close?" Participants were more likely to produce prepositional responses (At 7 o'clock) to questions containing a…
Descriptors: Repetition, Interpersonal Communication, Questioning Techniques, Responses
Zeynep Azar; Ad Backus; Asli Özyürek – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
Referent accessibility influences expressions in speech and gestures in similar ways. Speakers mostly use richer forms as noun phrases (NPs) in speech and gesture more when referents have low accessibility, whereas they use reduced forms such as pronouns more often and gesture less when referents have high accessibility. We investigated the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Turkish, Nonverbal Communication, Speech Communication
