Indirect anaphora in English and French:: A cross-linguistic study of pronoun resolution
Indirect anaphora in English and French:: A cross-linguistic study of pronoun resolution
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jml.2004.12.004
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发表时间：
2005-04-01
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
André, V
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作者：
Cornish, F;Garnham, A;André, V
在语言学和心理语言学中，关于使用无重音第三人称代词来指代隐含指称的问题存在着分歧。一些研究人员（例如，Erku T Gundel，1987年）认为，这是不可能的或高度显着的，而其他人（例如，Yule，1982）认为，它不仅是可以接受的，而且在正常的话语中经常使用。然而，辩论中的双方可能都是正确的：虽然外围隐含的指称（唤起建立给定事态的手段或工具）不容易使用代词来指代，但中心或“核心”隐含的指称却很容易。我们在两个实验中测试了这一假设，涉及不同的语言（英语和法语）。两个实验的结果都表明，代名词指称的隐式所指造成较慢的阅读时间相比，显式所指的外围所指。我们讨论这些结果与Gundel，Hedberg，和Zacharski（1993年，2000年）的Givenness层次。(c)2005年爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
There is disagreement within both linguistics and psycholinguistics concerning the use of unaccented third person pronouns to refer to implicit referents. Some researchers (e.g., Erku T Gundel, 1987) argue that it is impossible or highly marked, while others (e.g., Yule, 1982) maintain that it is not only acceptable but commonly used in normal discourse. However, both sides in the debate may be correct: while peripheral implicit referents (which evoke the means or the instrument by which a given state of affairs is established) are not easily referred to using pronouns, central or 'nuclear' implicit referents are. We tested this hypothesis in two experiments, involving different languages (English and French). The results of both experiments show that pronominal reference to implicit referents caused slower reading times compared to explicit referents for peripheral referents only. We discuss these results with respect to Gundel, Hedberg, and Zacharski's (1993, 2000) Givenness Hierarchy. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.