Individual Differences in Anaphora Resolution
Language and cognitive effects
1st Edition
Published on 15. November 2023
252 pages
978-90-272-4932-6 (ISBN)
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Individual Differences in Anaphora Resolution: Language and cognitive effects explores anaphora resolution from different perspectives, and investigates various aspects of the phenomenon, as contributions include research protocols that combine old and new experimental methodologies as well as theoretical and empirical approaches. A central theme across volume contributions are the multiple linguistic and extralinguistic factors that constrain anaphora resolution, its processing and acquisition by a variety of populations (children and adults, monolinguals, bilinguals and second language learners) as well as the mechanisms underlying anaphora resolution. Anaphora resolution constitutes an ideal environment to test the interaction between domain-general cognitive systems and domain-specific linguistic sub-routines, since variability in referential preferences is not related to binding constraints (an integral part of syntax per se) but is closely tied to processing (functional constraints) modulated by the integration of discourse-filtered information.
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Content
- Intro
- Individual Differences in Anaphora Resolution
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Part I Adult language and AR
- Individual Differences in Anaphora Resolution
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Linguistic factors
- 3. Individual differences and (non)-linguistic factors
- 4. The current volume
- What the readers will find useful
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Anaphora resolution in L1 Greek
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 The behavior of anaphoric expressions
- 1.2 Factors that determine antecedent saliency
- 1.2.1 Syntactic position
- 1.2.2 Topicality
- 1.2.3 Recency
- 1.2.4 Hierarchical discourse structure
- 2. The current study
- 2.1 Aim
- 2.2 Method
- 2.2.1 Participants
- 2.2.2 Procedure
- 2.2.3 Materials
- 2.2.4 Annotation
- 2.3 Research hypotheses
- 2.4 Results
- 2.4.1 Type of the referring expressions
- 2.4.2 Syntactic position
- 2.4.3 Topichood
- Sentential topic
- Discourse topic
- 2.4.4 Recency
- 2.4.5 Hierarchical discourse structure
- 3. Discussion
- 3.1 The distribution of referring expressions
- 3.2 Factors that affect antecedent saliency
- 3.3 Limitations of the study and suggestions for future research
- 3.4 Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Clausal types and syntactic subjects
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Background
- 2.1 Introducing and resuming discourse referents in Italian narratives
- 2.2 On post-verbal subjects of unaccusatives
- 3. Clausal types in Italian and Greek narratives
- 4. Introducing and resuming DRs in Greek
- 5. Extension and conclusions
- References
- On the interaction of age, cognitive abilities, print exposure and pronoun type in pronoun resolution
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The present study
- 3. Methodology
- 3.1 Participants
- 3.2 Experimental tasks
- 3.2.1 Anaphora resolution task
- 3.2.2 Individual differences tasks
- 3.2.2.1 Print exposure task
- 3.2.3 Cognitive tasks
- 3.2.3.1 Working memory
- 3.2.3.2 Global-local task
- 4. Results
- 4.1 Analysis plan
- 4.2 Correlation analyses among age, WM, cognitive skill and print exposure measures
- 4.3 Anaphora resolution task
- 4.3.1 Referent preference rates
- 4.3.2 Response times
- 4.3.3 On-line listening times
- 5. Discussion
- 6. Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Appendix
- Beyond explicit references
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Cognitive and functional aspects of reference tracking
- 3. A general zero anaphor principle and its application
- 3.1 Thematic coherence
- 3.2 Major and minor thematic discontinuity
- 4. A 'Fill-in-the-blanks' study
- 4.1 Stimulus material
- 4.2 Method and procedure
- 4.3 Results and discussion
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Part II AR in adult L2 language learning
- L1 effects in acquisition of the Japanese OPC by L1 English and L1 Spanish speakers
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Null subject languages
- 3. Interpretive differences of pronouns
- 3.1 Coreferential and bound variable pronouns in English
- 3.2 Spanish pronouns
- 3.3 Japanese pronouns
- 4. Previous studies
- 4.1 L2 Japanese
- 4.2 L2 Spanish
- 4.3 L2 Turkish
- 5. Research questions and predictions
- 6. Experiment
- 6.1 Participants
- 6.2 Task
- 7. Results
- 8. Discussion
- 8.1 The Japanese OPC
- 8.2 L1 transfer and L2 development
- 8.3 Future research
- 9. Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Measures of anaphoric-reflexive acquisition in Chinese
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Background on ziji
- 2.1 Properties of ziji
- 2.2 Theoretical background on ziji
- 2.3 Experiments with ziji
- 3. Methodology
- 4. Results and discussion
- 4.1 Antecedent choice
- 4.2 Confidence measures
- 4.3 Timing measures
- 4.4 Knowledge source measures
- 4.5 Summary
- 4.6 Individual variation
- 5. Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix 1: Target sentences
- N-F/NF
- P-F/NF
- PS-F/NF
- T-F
- P-LD1
- P-LD2
- PS-LD1
- PS-LD2
- References
- Part III AR in bilingual child grammar
- The use of null subjects by Greek-Italian bilingual children
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Referring expressions: the case of null subjects in Greek and Italian
- 3. Reference management in bilingual children: The role of cross-linguistic effects and dominance
- 4. The present study: research questions and predictions
- 5. Method
- 5.1 Participants
- 5.2 Screening tasks
- 5.2.1 Expressive vocabulary tests
- 5.2.2 Sentence repetition task
- 5.3 Narrative oral retelling task
- 5.3.1 Transcription and coding
- 6. Results
- 7. Discussion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Character reference in Russian and Cypriot Greek by bilingual children
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Character reference in narrative production
- 1.2 Greek and Russian referential system
- 1.3 Previous research on the development of character reference
- 1.4 Research questions
- 2. The study
- 2.1 Participants
- 2.2 Materials
- 2.3 Procedure
- 2.4 Data coding
- 2.5 Data analysis
- 3. Results
- 3.1 Narrative structure, length and complexity: 'Cat' vs. 'Fox' stories, CG vs. Russian
- 3.2 Narrative production and referential functions in Russian and in CG
- 3.3 Age factor: 'Cat' vs. 'Fox' stories, Russian vs. CG, character introduction
- 3.4 Age factor: 'Cat' vs. 'Fox' stories, Russian vs. CG, character reintroduction
- 3.5 Age factor: 'Cat' vs. 'Fox' stories, Russian vs. CG, character maintenance
- 4. Discussion and conclusion
- References
- Activation of referents in the bilingual mind1
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Activation of referents in narrative discourse
- 3. Activation in the bilingual mind
- 4. The study
- 4.1 Participants
- 4.2 Materials
- 4.3 Analysis
- 4.4 Results
- 4.4.1 Weight of the activation factors and derivation of the activation score
- 4.4.2 Activation of pronouns in bilinguals and monolinguals
- 4.4.3 Activation of definite nouns in bilinguals and monolinguals
- 5. Discussion and conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Index
