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Familiarity Hierarchy

Familiarity Hierarchy is a theoretical construct in information-structure typology that ranks discourse entities according to their relative degrees of familiarity or givenness in a discourse, distinguishing itself from other information-status hierarchies by prioritizing the epistemic accessibility of referents to speaker and hearer.

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The importance of being familiar: individual recognition and social behavior in sea trout (<i>Salmo trutta</i>)

Johan Höjesjö, Jörgen I. Johnsson, Erik Petersson et al. · Behavioral Ecology · 1998 · 175 citations

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The importance of local familiarity and search costs for age- and sex-biased philopatry in the collared flycatcher

Tomas Pärt · Animal Behaviour · 1995 · 133 citations

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Uniqueness, Familiarity, and the Definite Article in English

Betty J. Birner, Gregory Ward · Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society · 1994 · 128 citations · Full text

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Definite descriptions and cognitive status in English: why accommodation is unnecessary

Jeanette Κ. Gundel, Nancy Hedberg, Ron Zacharski · English Language and Linguistics · 2001 · 107 citations

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Hierarchies and the choice of left conjuncts (with particular attention to English)

Keith Allan · Journal of Linguistics · 1987 · 73 citations

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Authors

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  1. GT
    Georgios Tagalakis

    University College Dublin, Ireland

    1 publications · 15 citations

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  2. RC
    Robin Cohen

    University of Waterloo, Canada

    1 publications · 38 citations

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  3. WB
    William B. Stiles

    Miami University, United States

    1 publications · 26 citations

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  4. RA
    Rachel A. Diana

    Virginia Tech, United States

    1 publications · 11 citations

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  5. JH
    Johan Höjesjö

    University of Gothenburg, Sweden

    1 publications · 175 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Simon Fraser University

    Burnaby, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    107 citations

  2. Iowa State University

    Ames, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    22 citations

  3. Stockholm University

    Stockholm, Sweden

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    175 citations

  4. University of Waterloo

    Waterloo, Canada

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    76 citations

  5. Kyushu Tokai University

    Kumamoto, Japan

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    124 citations

  6. Yamaguchi Gakugei University

    Yamaguchi, Japan

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    124 citations

  7. University College Dublin

    Dublin, Ireland

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    30 citations

  8. Uppsala University

    Uppsala, Sweden

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    133 citations

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  1. Animal Behaviour

    1 publications · 133 citations

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  2. ACR North American Advances

    1 publications · 42 citations

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  3. Food and History

    1 publications · 24 citations

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  4. Behavioral Ecology

    1 publications · 175 citations

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  5. Brain Research

    1 publications · 11 citations

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