Anaphoric reference to mereological entities

IF 2.1 2区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL

Discourse Processes Pub Date : 2023-03-16 DOI:10.1080/0163853X.2023.2197682

DERYA ÇOKAL, R. Filik, P. Sturt, Massimo Poesio

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Corpus evidence suggests that in contexts in which the presence of multiple antecedents might favor plural reference, the disadvantage observed for singular reference may disappear if the potential antecedents are combined in a group-like plural entity. We examined the relative salience of antecedents in conditions where the context either made a group interpretation available (i.e., mereological entity) (e.g., The engineer hooked up the engine to the boxcar …, where group = train), or not (e.g., The engineer detached the engine from the boxcar …). Results from three experiments in which participants were asked to identify referents for singular versus plural pronouns (Experiment 1), to confirm the referents of pronouns in a sentence completion task (Experiment 2), and to provide paraphrases for given texts (Experiment 3), collectively provided evidence that the creation of a group makes that entity (i) a possible referent for singular anaphoric reference and (ii) more salient than its constituents.

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摘要语料库证据表明，在存在多个前因可能有利于复数指称的情况下，如果潜在的前因组合成一个类似群体的复数实体，则单数指称的缺点可能会消失。我们研究了在上下文提供了群体解释（即表面实体）（例如，工程师将发动机连接到棚车上…，其中群体=火车）或没有（例如，工程人员将发动机从棚车上拆下…）的情况下，前因的相对显著性。来自三个实验的结果，在这三个实验中，参与者被要求识别单数代词和复数代词的指代（实验1），在句子完成任务中确认代词的指涉（实验2），并为给定的文本提供转述（实验3），集体提供的证据表明，一个群体的创建使该实体（i）成为单数回指指称的可能指称对象，（ii）比其组成部分更突出。

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来源期刊

Discourse Processes Multiple-

CiteScore

4.30

自引率

4.50%

发文量

期刊介绍： Discourse Processes is a multidisciplinary journal providing a forum for cross-fertilization of ideas from diverse disciplines sharing a common interest in discourse--prose comprehension and recall, dialogue analysis, text grammar construction, computer simulation of natural language, cross-cultural comparisons of communicative competence, or related topics. The problems posed by multisentence contexts and the methods required to investigate them, although not always unique to discourse, are sufficiently distinct so as to require an organized mode of scientific interaction made possible through the journal.