Co-referential Processing of Pronouns and Repeated Names in Italian
| Autor: | Maria Luiza Cunha Lima, Carlos Gelormini-Lezama, Amit Almor, Mirta Vernice, Jefferson de Carvalho Maia |
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| Přispěvatelé: | de Carvalho Maia, J, Vernice, M, Gelormini Lezama, C, Lima, M, Almor, A |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male Linguistics and Language Psychology (all) Italian Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Overt-pronoun penalty Object (grammar) Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Psycholinguistics Article Young Adult Repeated name Reading (process) Subject (grammar) Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Language and Linguistic Coreferential processing Pronouns Repeated names Repeated-name penalty Female Italy Linguistics General Psychology media_common 060201 languages & linguistics Pronoun 05 social sciences Subject pronoun 06 humanities and the arts Focus (linguistics) Antecedent (grammar) 0602 languages and literature Psychology |
| Popis: | In this study, we investigate whether co-referential processing across sentence boundaries is driven by universal properties of the general architecture of memory systems and whether cross-linguistic differences concerning the number of anaphoric forms available in a language’s referential inventory can impact the process of inter-sentential co-reference resolution. As a window into these questions, we test whether the repeated-name penalty (RNP) and the overt-pronoun penalty (OPP)—comprehension delays associated with repeated names and overt pronouns, respectively, in comparison to more reduced anaphoric forms in reference to salient antecedents—occur in Italian, examining the extent to which Italian resembles other null-subject languages, with focus on Spanish. Our self-paced reading experiment with factors Antecedent (Subject, Object) and Anaphor (Null Pronoun, Overt Pronoun, Repeated Name) found that Italian exhibits both an OPP and a (weaker) RNP, extending previous research that showed these effects in Spanish and strengthening the claim that co-reference resolution might be subject to universal principles. |
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