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Lützeler, Anne and Voigt, Robert (2024). Effects of evaluation and prominence on the resolution of German demonstratives. Proceedings of ConSOLE, 31. pp. 52-68. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. ISSN 1574-499X

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Abstract

This paper deals with German demonstratives from the der, die, das (DPros) and dieser, diese, dieses (DemPros) paradigms. We investigated the hypothesis that DPros can refer to a discourse referent that is information structurally prominent when the speaker is available as perspective- taker while DemPros are not sensitive to perspective taking. The second hypothesis is that DemPros show a stronger preference towards the last-mentioned referent than DPros. We con- ducted an experiment combining offline- and online-measurements. Our results suggest that perspective plays a role in pronoun resolution and that prominence gives rise to more nuanced preferences among several antecedents.

Item Type:	Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Lützeler, Anne UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Voigt, Robert rvoigt4@uni-koeln.de UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-721265
Journal or Publication Title:	Proceedings of ConSOLE
Volume:	31
Page Range:	pp. 52-68
Date:	2024
Publisher:	Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
ISSN:	1574-499X
Language:	English
Faculty:	Collaborative Research Centers Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 3: Deutsche Sprache und Literatur > Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur I Collaborative Research Centers > CRC 1252: Prominence in Language > TP C07
Subjects:	Language, Linguistics
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language prominence, demonstrativ, perspective, empirical linguistics, evaluation UNSPECIFIED
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/72126