The cataphoric use of the indefinite this in spoken narratives
- 1 September 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Memory & Cognition
- Vol. 17 (5) , 536-540
- https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03197076
Abstract
Are concepts that were introduced with the unstressed, indefinite article this, as opposed to the indefinite a/an, more accessible from listeners’ mental representations? Subjects heard and then...This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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