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Ambiguous pronoun resolution - Contrasting the first-mention and subject-preference accounts




TekijätJarvikivi J, van Gompel RPG, Hyona J, Bertram R

KustantajaBLACKWELL PUBLISHERS

Julkaisuvuosi2005

JournalPsychological Science

Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimiPSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Lehden akronyymiPSYCHOL SCI

Vuosikerta16

Numero4

Aloitussivu260

Lopetussivu264

Sivujen määrä5

ISSN0956-7976

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.0956-7976.2005.01525.x


Tiivistelmä
A visual-world eye-tracking experiment investigated the influence of order of mention and grammatical role on resolution of ambiguous pronouns in Finnish. According to the first-mention account, general cognitive structure-building processes make the first-mentioned noun phrase the preferred antecedent of an ambiguous pronoun. According to the subject-preference account, the preferred antecedent is the grammatical subject of the preceding clause or sentence. Participants listened to sentences in either subject-verb-object or object-verb-subject order; each was followed by a sentence containing an ambiguous pronoun that referred to either the subject or the object. Participants' eye movements were monitored while they looked at pictures representing the two possible antecedents of each pronoun. Analyses of the fixations on the pictures showed that listeners used both order-of-mention and grammatical-role information to resolve ambiguous pronouns.



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