However, the relevant correlation of stress anddeicticuse appears to be restricted to third-person pronouns.From theCambridge English Corpus
Furthermore, we predict that the evidence will show that tense morphology codesdeicticrelations and not the aspectual contrast between bounded/unbounded.From theCambridge English Corpus
In the side-by-side condition, both helpers and workers can view one another and task objects, and both use a large number ofdeicticexpressions.From theCambridge English Corpus
The combination of spoken language along withdeicticgestures performs a critical disambiguation function.From theCambridge English Corpus
Also, in the manner of pro-forms, it isdeictic, taking its meaning from another element in the immediate context.From theCambridge English Corpus
The precedent for such a usage of "deictic" is stronger in the psychological literature than in the linguistic.From theCambridge English Corpus
Each gesture was classified according to type (deictic, conventional, representational) and the relation it held to speech (reinforcing, disambiguating, supplementary).From theCambridge English Corpus
In computing action, thedeicticvariables are linked with "semantic" information about the objects, corresponding to logical predicates.From theCambridge English Corpus
Prelinguistic predicates may be egocentric, but they are notdeictic.From theCambridge English Corpus
Looking at the lexical form of expletives (either a locative or a personal pronoun), it can be concluded that expletives have adeicticfeature.From theCambridge English Corpus
The switch from the reporting clause to the reported speech entails adeicticreorientation.From theCambridge English Corpus
The cooccurrence ofdeicticclitics with subject clitic inversion yields a ' surprise ' interpretation (the difference between this and rhetorical questions is not clear).From theCambridge English Corpus
This reanalysis takes place when children realize that expletive it never co-occurs with anydeictic/anaphoric referent.From theCambridge English Corpus
Learning thedeicticmeaning of third person pronouns.From theCambridge English Corpus
Caregivers used the same numbers ofdeictic, conventional, and representational gestures at each time period.From theCambridge English Corpus
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