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TAKEI Mitsuko
Department Hiroshima shudo University The Faculty of Global and Community Studies Position Professor |
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| Language | English |
| Publication Date | 2015/06 |
| Type | Articles |
| Title | When do you use pronouns?: An entity coherence approach |
| Contribution Type | Co-Authored Publication |
| Journal | Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics |
| Journal Type | Another Country |
| Volume, Issue, Pages | pp.251-257 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Author and coauthor | ◎Mitsuko Yamura-Takei & Etsuko Yoshida |
| Details | This study attempts to explicate entity coherence of discourse and its effect on pronominalization in the framework of Centering Theory (Grosz, Joshi and Weinstein 1995). We conducted a survey with native speakers (NS) of English and Japanese and examined in the survey result, (1) how centering prediction is reflected in human intuitive judgments on pronominalization and (2) how NS judgments differ across the languages. The result showed that decisions on pronominalization are reasonably compatible with centering predictions. |