More fun with Facebook: THE
Underlying Logic 2014-10-12
The script that I used to make that course assignment about Facebook pronouns ("Sex, age, and pronouns on Facebook", 9/19/2014; "More fun with Facebook pronouns", 9/27/2014) can trivially be focused on any other words — so here's "the":
And "this":
Also "those":
And "that" (though the determiner version is mixed with the complementizer):
And "which":
For some reason, "these" doesn't show an age effect:
We may get a clue about what's going on from "and":
And also "or":
But "but":