Fossard, Marion, Garnham, Alan and Cowles, H Wind (2011) Between anaphora and deixis... the resolution of the demonstrative noun phrase "that N". Language and Cognitive Processes, 27 (9). pp. 1385-1404. ISSN 0169-0965

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Abstract

Three experiments examined the hypothesis that the demonstrative noun phrase (NP) that N, as an anadeictic expression, preferentially refers to the less salient referent in a discourse representation when used anaphorically, whereas the anaphoric pronoun he or she preferentially refers to the highly-focused referent. The findings, from a sentence completion task and two reading time experiments that used gender to create ambiguous and unamobiguous coreference, reveal that the demonstrative NP specifically orients processing toward a less salient referent when there is no gender cue discriminating between different possible referents. These findings show the importance of taking into account the discourse function of the anaphor itself and its influence on the process of searching for the referent.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Psychology > Psychology
Depositing User:	Alan Garnham
Date Deposited:	29 Jan 2013 15:21
Last Modified:	10 Jun 2013 14:34
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/13851

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