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Patterson, Clare ORCID: 0000-0002-0790-4892, Schumacher, Petra B., Nicenboim, Bruno ORCID: 0000-0002-5176-3943, Hagen, Johannes and Kehler, Andrew (2022). A Bayesian Approach to German Personal and Demonstrative Pronouns. Front. Psychol., 12. LAUSANNE: FRONTIERS MEDIA SA. ISSN 1664-1078

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Abstract

When faced with an ambiguous pronoun, an addressee must interpret it by identifying a suitable referent. It has been proposed that the interpretation of pronouns can be captured using Bayes' Rule: P(referent|pronoun) proportional to P(pronoun|referent)P(referent). This approach has been successful in English and Mandarin Chinese. In this study, we further the cross-linguistic evidence for the Bayesian model by applying it to German personal and demonstrative pronouns, and provide novel quantitative support for the model by assessing model performance in a Bayesian statistical framework that allows implementation of a fully hierarchical structure, providing the most conservative estimates of uncertainty. Data from two story-continuation experiments showed that the Bayesian model overall made more accurate predictions for pronoun interpretation than production and next-mention biases separately. Furthermore, the model accounts for the demonstrative pronoun dieser as well as the personal pronoun, despite the demonstrative having different, and more rigid, resolution preferences.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Patterson, Clare UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-0790-4892 UNSPECIFIED Schumacher, Petra B. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Nicenboim, Bruno UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-5176-3943 UNSPECIFIED Hagen, Johannes UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Kehler, Andrew UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-675387
DOI:	10.3389/fpsyg.2021.672927
Journal or Publication Title:	Front. Psychol.
Volume:	12
Date:	2022
Publisher:	FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
Place of Publication:	LAUSANNE
ISSN:	1664-1078
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language THEMATIC ROLES; CONFIDENCE; RESOLUTION; COHERENCE; FORM Multiple languages Psychology, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/67538