Do Speakers Produce Different Referring Expressions in Their Native Language Than A Non-native Language?
Imtiaz Hussain Khan, Muazzam Ahmed Siddiqui
International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2015.
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Abstract:
This article explores empirically how Arabic speakers produce referring expressions in their native and nonnative
languages. Twenty six native Arabic speakers, who were also fluent in English, took part in the empirical study.
Participants were presented with objects in visual domains and they were asked to describe the (marked) target object by
typing a description which can uniquely identify the target to their addressee. The data reveal that there are no significant
differences between referring expressions produced in native and non-native languages.