Linguistic and cognitive prominence in anaphor resolution: topic, contrastive focus and pronouns
Linguistic and cognitive prominence in anaphor resolution: topic, contrastive focus and pronouns
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DOI：
10.1007/s11245-006-9004-6
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发表时间：
2007-01-01
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Kluender, Robert
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作者：
Cowles, H. Wind;Walenski, Matthew;Kluender, Robert
本文探讨了语言和认知突显在照应-先行关系解析中的作用。在两个实验中，我们发现，代词立即敏感的认知突出的潜在先行词时，其他先行词的选择线索是无信息的。实验一的结果表明，尽管理论上存在差异，主题和对比焦点都有助于增强认知突显。实验二的结果表明，适合焦点结构的对比韵律在增强认知突显中也起着重要作用。因此，不同类型的语言突出性（主题、对比焦点）似乎具有增加话语所指的认知突出性的共同效果。对于有两个可能的先行词的代词，先行词的认知突出有助于回指的解决，立即偏向于更突出（最终首选）的先行词的选择。
This paper examines the role that linguistic and cognitive prominence play in the resolution of anaphor-antecedent relationships. In two experiments, we found that pronouns are immediately sensitive to the cognitive prominence of potential antecedents when other antecedent selection cues are uninformative. In experiment 1, results suggest that despite their theoretical dissimilarities, topic and contrastive focus both serve to enhance cognitive prominence. Results from experiment 2 suggest that the contrastive prosody appropriate for focus constructions may also play an important role in enhancing cognitive prominence. Thus different types of linguistic prominence (topic, contrastive focus) appear to have the common effect of increasing the cognitive prominence of the discourse referent. For pronouns with two possible antecedents, the cognitive prominence of an antecedent aids in anaphor resolution, immediately biasing selection towards the more prominent (and ultimately preferred) antecedent.