Focus on Cataphora: Experiments in Context
| العنوان: | Focus on Cataphora: Experiments in Context |
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| المؤلفون: | Sophie Nickel-Thompson, Queenie Chan, Keir Moulton, Tanie Cheng, Chung-hye Han, Kyeong-min Kim |
| المصدر: | Linguistic Inquiry. 49:151-168 |
| بيانات النشر: | MIT Press - Journals, 2018. |
| سنة النشر: | 2018 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 060201 languages & linguistics, Linguistics and Language, Coreference, Referring expression, Dependency (UML), Cataphora, 05 social sciences, Context (language use), 06 humanities and the arts, 050105 experimental psychology, Language and Linguistics, Linguistics, Focus (linguistics), 0602 languages and literature, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Sociology |
| الوصف: | Since Chomsky 1976 , it has been claimed that focus on a referring expression blocks coreference in a cataphoric dependency (* Hisi mother loves JOHNi vs. Hisi mother LOVES Johni ). In three auditory experiments and a written questionnaire, we show that this fact does not hold when a referent is unambiguously established in the discourse (cf. Williams 1997 , Bianchi 2009 ) but does hold otherwise, validating suggestions in Rochemont 1978 , Horvath 1981 , and Rooth 1985 . The perceived effect of prosody, we argue, building on Williams’s original insight and deliberate experimental manipulation of Rochemont’s and Horvath’s examples, is due to the fact that deaccenting the R-expression allows hearers to accommodate a salient referent via a “question under discussion” ( Roberts 1996/2012 , Rooth 1996 ), to which the pronoun can refer in ambiguous or impoverished contexts. This heuristic is not available in the focus cases, and we show that participants’ interpretation of the pronoun is ambivalent here. |
| تدمد: | 1530-9150 0024-3892 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::906a9e0342ef2e7731c4167252eb882b https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00269 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........906a9e0342ef2e7731c4167252eb882b |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15309150 00243892 |
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