Pronouns in Catalan: games of partial information and the use of linguistic resources

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• dc.contributor.author Mayol, Laiaca
• dc.contributor.author Clark, Robinca
• dc.date.accessioned 2018-03-16T11:54:44Z
• dc.date.available 2018-03-16T11:54:44Z
• dc.date.issued 2010
• dc.description.abstract This paper investigates the variation between null and overt subject pronouns in Catalan, a null subject language. We account for this variation in game-theoretical terms: that is, we analyze the distribution of both overt and null pronouns as a result of the strategic interaction between participants in a communicative exchange. First, we examine the Position of Antecedent Hypothesis (PAH), as put forward by Carminati (2002). This hypothesis proposes that null and overt pronouns have difeerent biases: null pronouns prefer antecedents in subject positions, while overt pronouns prefer antecedents in non-subject positions. Carminati (2002) tested the PAH for Italian in a variety of intrasentential contexts. In this paper, we show experimentally that the PAH also holds for Catalan even in across-sentence contexts. In the second place, we also show how the PAH can be naturally redefined as a game of partial information, in which speaker and hearer are trying to communicate. This redefinition does not just translate the PAH into a different notation, but it extends the PAH into a model that makes more accurate predictions, since it can account also for the cases in which the biases predicted by the PAH are not obeyed.en
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• dc.identifier.citation Mayol L, Clark R. Pronouns in Catalan: games of partial information and the use of linguistic resources. J Pragmat. 2010;42(3):781-99. DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2009.07.004
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2009.07.004
• dc.identifier.issn 0378-2166
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/34188
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Elsevierca
• dc.relation.ispartof J Pragmat. 2010;42(3):781-99. DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2009.07.004
• dc.rights © Elsevier http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2009.07.004
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• dc.subject.keyword Anaphoraen
• dc.subject.keyword Game theoryen
• dc.subject.keyword Null-subject languagesen
• dc.subject.keyword Catalanen
• dc.title Pronouns in Catalan: games of partial information and the use of linguistic resourcesca
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