Situational context affects definiteness preferences: Accommodation of presuppositions.
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Situational context affects definiteness preferences: accommodation of presuppositions.
In 4 experiments, we used self-paced reading and eye tracking to demonstrate that readers are, under some conditions, sensitive to the presuppositions of definite versus indefinite determiner phrases (DPs). Reading was faster when the context stereotypically provided a single possible referent for a definite DP or multiple possible referents for an indefinite DP than when context and DP definit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1939-1285,0278-7393
DOI: 10.1037/a0028975