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Cognitive Aspects of Anaphora Judgment and Resolution

By Ronald H. Smyth

Dr. Smyth's work examines English pronominal anaphora from three perspectives. First, he discusses the role of processing strategies in grammaticality judgment and the tendency to use different strategies--comprehension strategies vs. production frequency criteria--on the part of non-linguists and linguists respectively. Second, the serial search model of anaphora resolution is refuted, and an alternative model is proposed which incorporates on-line exploitation of syntactic and semantic cues. Third, through a probe recognitioon task, post-resolution activation effects are researched. Supporting discussion on methodological aspects of data collection, and a review of the experimental literature on anaphora resolution is also offered.

191 pages
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