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Anaphoric islands and anaphoric forms: the role of explicit and implicit focus

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posted on 2023-06-09, 04:56 authored by Alan GarnhamAlan Garnham, Jane OakhillJane Oakhill, David Reynolds
Two experiments are reported in which people resolve references to sets of entities (e.g. lies) that have previously been introduced either explicitly into a text (“the lies”) or implicitly via a cognate verb (a form of the verb “to lie”). Pronominal references to such entities were judged as relatively unacceptable, and required longer judgement times when judgements were positive, compared to cases in which the antecedent was explicit. This finding suggests that the inference from the activity of lying to a set of lies is made in the backwards direction (Garnham & Oakhill, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 40A, 719-735) . Results with full noun phrase anaphors show a different pattern, with no penalty in either times or acceptability judgements for the implicit case. The results are discussed in terms of Sanford and Garrod’s (1981, Understanding written language) hypotheses about reference processing and the notion of the centrality of an antecedent in a scenario.

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  • Published

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Journal

Discourse Processes

ISSN

0163-853X

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

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2

Volume

55

Page range

197-205

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  • Psychology Publications

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Legacy Posted Date

2017-01-25

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2019-01-12

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-01-25

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