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    "pk": 26282,
    "title": "Pragmatic relativity: Gender and context affect the use of personal pronouns in\ndiscourse differentially across languages",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Speakers need to use a variety of referring expressions (REs)\n(e.g. full noun phrases, pronouns or null forms) in\npragmatically appropriate ways to produce coherent\nnarratives. Languages, however, differ from each other in\nterms of a) whether REs as arguments can be dropped or not\nand b) whether personal pronouns encode gender or not. Here\nwe examine two languages that differ from each other in these\ntwo aspects and ask whether the co-reference context (i.e.,\nreferents are maintained or re-introduced) and the gender\nencoding options affect the use of REs differentially. We\nelicited narratives from Dutch and Turkish speakers about\ntwo types of three-person events, one including people of the\nsame and the other of mixed-gender. Speakers of both\nlanguages followed a general principle of using full forms\nsuch as noun phrases (NPs) while re-introducing a previously\nmentioned referent into the discourse and reduced forms\n(overt or null pronoun) while maintaining the same referent; a\nlanguage independent strategy in discourse production.\nTurkish speakers, unlike Dutch speakers, used pronouns\nmainly to mark emphasis. Furthermore, Dutch but not Turkish\nspeakers used pronouns differentially across the two videos.\nThus, we argue that linguistic possibilities available in\ntypologically different languages might tune speakers into\ntaking different principles into account to establish coherence\nin narratives in pragmatically coherent ways.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "referring expressions; gender encoding;\npronouns; cross-linguistic comparison; discourse production"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3fx1f6d4",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Zeynep",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Azar",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Radboud University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Ad",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Backus",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Tilburg University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Aslı",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Özyürek",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Radboud University , Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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