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The aim of this study is to refresh the extant literature regarding anaphoric interpretation from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), a text-based approach that has been long missing in the prior studies. Within an SFL-oriented model of cohesion-driven anaphoric relations, a total of 132 participants participated in two tasks examining how Chinese EFL learners interpreted six anaphora subcategories-reference (coreference), ellipsis & substitution, repetition, synonymy, hyponymy and collocation (non-coreference or associative anaphora)-both at inter- and intra-sentential levels in two narratives. Results indicated low accuracy across multiple anaphoric relations. Proficiency did not explain variance in performance, whereas statistically significant within-genre topic effects were reported. In addition, these findings have implications for instructors, learners, and researchers.
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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research publishes carefully selected papers from the several disciplines engaged in psycholinguistic research, providing a single, recognized medium for communications among linguists, psychologists, biologists, sociologists, and others. The journal covers a broad range of approaches to the study of the communicative process, including: the social and anthropological bases of communication; development of speech and language; semantics (problems in linguistic meaning); and biological foundations. Papers dealing with the psychopathology of language and cognition, and the neuropsychology of language and cognition, are also included.
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