The role of structure in coreference assignment during sentence comprehension
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
- Vol. 18 (1) , 5-19
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01069043
Abstract
This paper examines the role of symtactic constraints on the reactivation and assignment of antecedents to explicit and implicit anaphoric elements during sentence comprehension. Evidence from on-line studies examining the time course of coreference processing supports the view that reactivation of potential antecedents is restricted by grammatical constraints when they are available. When structural information cannot serve to constrain antecedent selection, then pragmatic information may play a role, but only at a later point in processing.Keywords
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