Acoustic Cues for Sensory Modality and Referential Vagueness of Personal Pronouns: Me or Not? You or Not?

Abstract

Personal pronouns are of great pragmatic significance, and among their numerous functions, referential vagueness is the key to the exploration of the self. In Experiment 1, the relationship of first-, second-, and third personal pronouns with the self was discussed in acoustic condition, with gender consistency, pronoun type, and person type as independent variables. Experiment 2 records the frequency of the subjects on the SR button and the NSR button, and statistical analysis was performed on the SR button reaction. This study finds that the same pronouns show different self-cognitive processing under the different visual and acoustic stimuli, and the results support the dynamics of personal pronouns and possessive pronouns and self relationships.