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    "pk": 26465,
    "title": "Bayesian Pronoun Interpretation in Mandarin Chinese",
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    "abstract": "Kehler and Rohde (2013) proposed a Bayesian theory of pro-noun interpretation where the influence of world knowledgeemerges as effects on the prior and the influence of informationstructure as effects on the likelihood: P(referent|pronoun) μP(pronoun|referent)P(referent). Here we present two experi-ments on Mandarin Chinese that allow us to test the generalityof the theory for a language with different syntactic-semanticassociations than English. Manipulations involving two dif-ferent classes of implicit-causality verbs and passive vs. activevoice confirmed key predictions of the Bayesian theory: effectsof these manipulations on the prior and likelihood in produc-tion were consistently reflected in pronoun interpretation pref-erences. Quantitative analysis shows that the Bayesian modelis the best fit for Mandarin compared to two competing anal-yses. These results lend both qualitative and quantitative sup-port to a cross linguistically general Bayesian theory of pro-noun interpretation.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Bayesian modeling; pronoun interpretation; Man-darin Chinese"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/09q935qk",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Meilin",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Zhan",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, San Diego",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Roger",
            "middle_name": "P.",
            "last_name": "Levy",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, San Diego ; Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Andrew",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kehler",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, San Diego",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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