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Structural constraints on pronoun binding and coreference: evidence from eye movements during reading

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Title
Structural constraints on pronoun binding and coreference: evidence from eye movements during reading
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Frontiers in Psychology, June 2015
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00840
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Ian Cunnings, Clare Patterson, Claudia Felser

Abstract

A number of recent studies have investigated how syntactic and non-syntactic constraints combine to cue memory retrieval during anaphora resolution. In this paper we investigate how syntactic constraints and gender congruence interact to guide memory retrieval during the resolution of subject pronouns. Subject pronouns are always technically ambiguous, and the application of syntactic constraints on their interpretation depends on properties of the antecedent that is to be retrieved. While pronouns can freely corefer with non-quantified referential antecedents, linking a pronoun to a quantified antecedent is only possible in certain syntactic configurations via variable binding. We report the results from a judgment task and three online reading comprehension experiments investigating pronoun resolution with quantified and non-quantified antecedents. Results from both the judgment task and participants' eye movements during reading indicate that comprehenders freely allow pronouns to corefer with non-quantified antecedents, but that retrieval of quantified antecedents is restricted to specific syntactic environments. We interpret our findings as indicating that syntactic constraints constitute highly weighted cues to memory retrieval during anaphora resolution.

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Country Count As %
Russia 1 2%
Unknown 43 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 25%
Student > Master 7 16%
Researcher 3 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 7%
Lecturer 3 7%
Other 9 20%
Unknown 8 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Linguistics 22 50%
Psychology 4 9%
Neuroscience 2 5%
Arts and Humanities 1 2%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 2%
Other 3 7%
Unknown 11 25%
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