(a.) Belonging to, or partaking of the nature of, a pronoun.
Example Sentences:
(1) When most utterances were long enough to include pronominal prefixes as well as roots, morphological structure was apparently discovered.
(2) A formalism for analyzing pronominal cohesion was developed and applied to the narrative discourse of three hemidecorticate adolescents.
(3) We measured the frequency of subjects (Study 1); types of pronominal subjects, including expletives (Study 2); frequency of modals and semi-auxiliaries (Study 3); frequency of infinitival to, past tense, third person singular, and subordinate clauses (Study 4); length of verb phrase, frequency of different types of verbs, and frequency of direct objects (Study 5).
(4) Eighty-one children ranging in age from 3;1 to 8;0 and eight adults acted out four types of pronominal sentences.
(5) Comprehension and production of first- and second-person pronouns were longitudinally examined from 1;7 to 2;10 to test three hypotheses concerning pronominal errors: pronominal errors are a result of either (a) semantic confusion, (b) simple imitation, or (c) confusion between self and others.
(6) Dependent variables included lexicalization versus ellipsis, pronominalization, and definite and indefinite article use.
(7) In particle verb constructions, pronominal objects were placed immediately after the verb in all but a few cases ("He's pushing it over" not "He's pushing over it").
(8) These pronominal uses were analysed in a number of semantic contexts to determine how interactive situations influence the use of different types of pronouns.
(9) The present study investigated if pronominal errors in autistic children can be explained by this alternative hypothesis.
(10) The present study explores pronominal reference in relation to wh questions.
(11) A method of teaching was devised to establish a system of pronominal reference, which enabled this adolescent girl to comprehend and produce wh questions.
(12) Persistent pronominal errors in autistic children have been attributed either to a psychosocial deficit or to a linguistic or cognitive deficit.
(13) Even our lowest-MLU American group (5 children between 1.5 and 1.99) used subjects and pronominal subjects more than twice as often as the Italian children, and correctly case-marked their subjects.
(14) The wh question requires a pronominal reference system to be well-established before the wh question can be comprehended and produced.
(15) Children produced pronominal and full NP objects of sequences corresponding to PPs and verb-plus-particle in the adult grammar.
(16) Prepositions freely took both pronominal and full NP objects ("He's jumping over it."
(17) This presentation includes discussion of 1) when personal, reflexive, possessive, and indefinite pronominal forms appear in child-initiated contexts, 2) which errors emerge, and 3) which communicative functions utterances with pronouns have in dialogue.
(18) However, recent studies of normal children suggest that the failure to observe pronouns in speech addressed to another person is a major reason children show pronominal errors.
(19) The number of cohesive ties increased with both age and MLU, due to increased pronominal reference and conjunctions (while clausal and verbal ellipsis decreased).
(20) Clear evidence for the alternative hypothesis was obtained for second person pronouns, suggesting that pronominal errors in autistic children can be interpreted within the framework of normal language development.
Pronoun
Definition:
(n.) A word used instead of a noun or name, to avoid the repetition of it. The personal pronouns in English are I, thou or you, he, she, it, we, ye, and they.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their speech patterns, specifically pronoun use, were analyzed and support the postulate that a high frequency of self-references indicates memory loss and paucity of present experience.
(2) The study is longitudinal and compares the development of body communication and speech (here: the use of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and pronouns) during the 18-month period of rehabilitation.
(3) The use of singular and plural first-person pronouns provided a measure of individuality and mutuality in families of 18 field-dependent and 20 field-independent children (19 boys and 19 girls).
(4) Last year the blogger revealed that she was non-binary transgender , and now identifies as neither male nor female, though she says she prefers the use of female pronouns when being written about.
(5) He omitted 43% of articles, 40% of complementizers, 20% of pronouns, 27% of semantically marked prepositions, 43% of purely grammatic prepositions, and 22% of auxiliary verbs, but his average sentence length was 9.8 words and 64% of his sentences contained embedded clauses.
(6) Compensation of chronic volume load in aortic regurgitation is not compensated by an increased contractility but by ventricular enlargement and a pronouned increase in preload.
(7) Of the Moir storm, writer Tim Brown has decried in Spiked Online "a spectacle of feelings, a seething mass of self-affirming emotional incontinence, a carnival of first-person pronouns and expressions of hurt and proxy offence".
(8) Redistribution of parts of speech expressed in diminution of the proportion of verbs because of the predominance of pronouns and adverbs is explained by a reduced ability to formulate utterances, probably due to autism.
(9) Psychological investigations of pronoun resolution have implicitly assumed that the processes involved automatically provide a unique referent for every pronoun.
(10) The factors were (1) length in number of words, (2) complexity of personal pronouns and main verbs as scaled by Lee (1974), and (3) word familiarity, defined as common vocabulary or the substitution of a nonsense word in place of a typical noun or verb in the model sentence.
(11) Sometimes, the simplest of language, even pronouns, can be quite telling.
(12) These children's extraordinary problems with verb morphology are well documented, and preliminary evidence indicates frequent pronoun case errors (e.g., her for she) in their speech.
(13) The greatest difference was in syntactical elements, with manics using more action verbs, adjectives, and concrete nouns, while the depressed patients used more state of being verbs, modifying adverbs, first-person pronouns, and personal pronouns.
(14) The results suggest that Broca's aphasics' limitations in retrieving pronouns, and therefore other closed-class elements, are not a function of either phonological status, phrasal category, or grammatical relation.
(15) Mothers of children with Down syndrome were compared to mothers of nonretarded children with regard to the proportions of substantive deixis and of nouns (as opposed to pronouns) they used from the time when their children were prelinguistic until after they had started to talk.
(16) The use of the pronoun "I" when a speaker refers to his own actions, thoughts, or emotions is appropriate.
(17) These two strategies were tested by examining the interpretation of single object pronouns, first in a reading task and second in an assignment task.
(18) In naturally occurring, nonlaboratory settings, Studies 1 and 2 demonstrated a decrease in first-person singular pronoun usage as the proportionate number of discussants in a group increased.
(19) Changes in weight indices are more pronouned if the time of the effect coincides with that of intensive growth and maturation of the brain structure (N. I. Dmitrieva, 1966).
(20) They chose the main or minor character as referent for a pronoun in the next (target) sentence.