Pragmatic expectations and coreference: how alternative constructions and referring expressions can serve as cues
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This paper addresses the question whether possible alternative constructions and alternative choices of referring expressions influence the resolution of anaphoric expressions. We present a questionnaire, a self-paced reading study and a corpus analysis, suggesting that alternative constructions and referring expressions help to constitute preferences for anaphora in referentially ambiguous sentences and also affect on-line sentence processing.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011