We propose a unified prominence-based account of the two paradigms of demonstrative
pronouns in German: the die-and diese-paradigm. The two types of demonstrative pronouns …

Pronoun interpretation is guided by various factors. While most previously-investigated
factors involve properties occurring before the pronoun, less attention has been paid to …

This paper presents three picture description experiments investigating grammatical
encoding and reference production in German. Participants described pictures showing …

Current models suggest that pronoun comprehension is guided by expectations about who
or what will be mentioned (Arnold, 1998; Kehler & Rohde, 2013; Hartshorne et al., 2015; …

This article investigates how animacy in interaction with the syntactic function of a referent's
antecedent determines the interpretation of different types of pronouns and demonstratives …

The explicit marking of focus has a measurable impact on language comprehension,
including the interpretation of pronouns, but so far the impact of focus on demonstrative …

This paper examines the nature of object marking in DGS (German Sign Language),
providing an account of the behavior of the sign glossed as PAM, previously analyzed as an …

ABSTRACT A Bayesian Model proposed by Kehler et al.([2008]. Coherence and
coreference revisited. Journal of Semantics, 25 (1), 1–44. https://doi. org/10.1093/jos/ffm018) …

Pronouns, ubiquitous in discourse, are vital linguistic tools for referencing entities. They
directly influence communicative success between speaker and listener and are crucial for …

Anaphoric demonstrative pronouns (d-pronouns), which are found in some languages in
addition to the more common personal pronouns (p-pronouns), provide an interesting test …