A Metarepresentational Analysis of the Comprehension of Anaphoric Processes

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Anaphoric expressions, whether phonologically realized or not, instruct the addresseeto access their referent within the higher-order representation(i. e. meta-representation) of a source representation(i. e. verbal or non-verbal ostensive stimuli which are first targeted in terms of referent identification). It is also evident that the accessibility of contextual assumptions enabling the identification of areferent differs according to the types of anaphoric expressions. This indicates that differences in the accessibility of a matarepresentation as a contextual assumption and in processing effort stem from degrees of its resemblance to the source representation.