Ambiguity in Anaphora
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This paper presents novel psycholinguistic evidence on the factors governing pronoun resolution in German. To determine the relative influence of linear order versus grammatical function of potential referents in the German Mittelfeld on pronoun interpretation, an interpretation-preference task was run on 23 German natives. Subjects chose the preferred referent for fully ambiguous personal pronouns. The results across different verb types show that grammatical function, yet not linear order, predicts pronoun resolution in German.
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