When he can also be she: An ERP study of reflexive pronoun resolution in written Mandarin Chinese [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 The gender information in written Chinese third person pronouns is not symmetrically encoded: the character for he (他, with semantic radical 人, meaning human) is used as a default referring to every individual, while the character for she (她, with ...
Jui-Ju eSu +9 more
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Active Search for Antecedents in Cataphoric Pronoun Resolution [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Cataphoric dependencies where a pronoun precedes its antecedent appear to call on different mechanisms in language comprehension from forward dependencies where the antecedent precedes the pronoun.
Leticia ePablos +6 more
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What naturalistic stimuli tell us about pronoun resolution in real-time processing [PDF]
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2023 Studies on pronoun resolution have mostly utilized short texts consisting of a context and a target sentence. In the current study we presented participants with nine chapters of an audio book while recording their EEG to investigate the real-time ...
Magdalena Repp, Petra B. Schumacher
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Implicit Causality and Pronoun Resolution in Intersubjective Discourse Relations [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Interpersonal verbs like disappoint and praise in Lucy disappointed/praised Mary because she… bias the potential cause of the event to one of the antecedent noun phrases (henceforth NPs) (e.g., Lucy for disappoint whereas Mary for praise).
Siqi Lyu, Luming Wang
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Discourse Coherence in Pronoun Resolution [PDF]
Discours, 2013 According to “Centering Theory”, an entity that links to the prior discourse could receive a boost in the current prominence ranking. Such a boost will affect pronoun processing because pronouns tend to seek out the most prominent entity for reference ...
Clare Patterson
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The Influence of Focus Marking on Pronoun Resolution in Dialogue Context [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Using visual world eye-tracking, we examined whether adults (N = 58) and children (N = 37; 3;1–6;3) use linguistic focussing devices to help resolve ambiguous pronouns.
Liam P. Blything +5 more
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Immediate sensitivity to structural constraints in pronoun resolution [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Real-time interpretation of pronouns is sometimes sensitive to the presence of grammatically-illicit antecedents, and sometimes not. This occasional sensitivity has been taken as evidence that structural constraints do not immediately impact the initial ...
Wing Yee eChow +5 more
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Grammatical Role Parallelism Influences Ambiguous Pronoun Resolution in German [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Previous research on pronoun resolution in German revealed that personal pronouns in German tend to refer to the subject or topic antecedents, however, these results are based on studies involving subject personal pronouns.
Antje Sauermann, Natalia Gagarina
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The role of gender information in pronoun resolution: evidence from Chinese. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Although previous studies have consistently demonstrated that gender information is used to resolve pronouns, the mechanisms underlying the use of gender information continue to be controversial.
Lijing Qiu +3 more
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Structural constraints on pronoun binding and coreference: Evidence from eye movements during reading [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 A number of recent studies have investigated how syntactic and non-syntactic constraints combine to cue memory retrieval during anaphora resolution. In this paper we investigate how syntactic constraints and gender congruence interact to guide memory ...
Ian eCunnings +2 more
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