The effect of thematic roles on pronoun use and frequency of reference continuation
The effect of thematic roles on pronoun use and frequency of reference continuation
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DOI：
10.1207/s15326950dp3102_02
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发表时间：
2001-01-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Arnold, JE
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作者：
Arnold, JE
目标和来源的主位角色已经被证明会影响代词的解析，这种效果与读者倾向于关注事件的后果有关（史蒂文森，克劳利和克莱曼，1994）。使用一个故事延续实验，我表明，扬声器也倾向于使用代词更经常的目标实体比源实体。此外，实验和语料库分析表明，说话人倾向于更频繁地提到目标实体比源实体整体。我用平行的研究结果，代词的使用和频率的参考延续认为，所指的可及性的影响的理解者的估计的可能性，所指将继续在话语中。
Goal and source thematic roles have been shown to influence pronoun resolution, an effect that has been linked to the reader's tendency to focus on the consequences of the event (Stevenson, Crawley, & Kleinman, 1994). Using a story continuation experiment, I show that speakers also tend to use pronouns more often for goal entities than source entities. Furthermore, the experiment and a corpus analysis reveal that speakers tend to refer more frequently to goal entities than source entities overall. I use the parallel findings about pronoun use and frequency of reference continuation to argue that referent accessibility is influenced by the comprehender's estimate of the likelihood that a referent will be continued in the discourse.