Pronoun interpretation in Mandarin Chinese follows principles of Bayesian inference.
Successful natural language understanding requires that comprehenders be able to resolve uncertainty in language. One source of potential uncertainty emerges from a speaker's choice to use a pronoun (e.g., he, she, they), since pronouns often do not fully specify the speaker's intended ref...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2020-01-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237012 |