The effect of meaning-related cues on pronoun resolution in Dutch
Pronoun interpretation seems to be driven by structural factors, but also by factors related to meaning. In a forced-choice pronoun interpretation experiment, we compare the impact of the next-mention bias associated with transfer-of-possession-verbs on the interpretation of three Dutch pronominal forms that differ in the strength of their structural biases: reduced personal pronoun ze ‘she_reduced ’, full personal pronoun zij ‘she_full’, and demonstrative pronoun die ‘that’. In addition to replicating the common Goal-bias associated with transfer-of-possession verbs, results show significant... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2024 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, vol 46, iss 0 |
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University of California |
Schlagwörter: | Linguistics / Discourse / Language understanding / Pragmatics |
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Link(s) : | https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8fz4c880 |
Pronoun interpretation seems to be driven by structural factors, but also by factors related to meaning. In a forced-choice pronoun interpretation experiment, we compare the impact of the next-mention bias associated with transfer-of-possession-verbs on the interpretation of three Dutch pronominal forms that differ in the strength of their structural biases: reduced personal pronoun ze ‘she_reduced ’, full personal pronoun zij ‘she_full’, and demonstrative pronoun die ‘that’. In addition to replicating the common Goal-bias associated with transfer-of-possession verbs, results show significant differences in the proportion of pronoun resolved to the preceding subject between all three pronominal forms. However, the effect of the next-mention manipulation did not differ between pronominal forms. These findings are in line with a model of pronoun interpretation that combines structural and meaning-related factors, and present particularly strong evidence against models that posit that pronoun interpretation is the mirror image of pronoun production.