The timing of prominence information during the resolution of German personal and demonstrative pronouns

Q1 Arts and Humanities

Dialogue and Discourse Pub Date : 2020-03-19 DOI:10.5087/dad.2020.101

Clare Patterson, P. Schumacher

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Abstract

German personal and demonstrative pronouns have distinct preferences in their interpretation; personal pronouns are more flexible in their interpretation but tend to resolve to a prominent antecedent, while demonstratives have a strong preference for a non-prominent antecedent. However, less is known about how prominence information is used during the process of resolution, particularly in the light of two- stage processing models which assume that reference will normally be to the most accessible candidate. We conducted three experiments investigating how prominence information is used during the resolution of gender-disambiguated personal and demonstrative pronouns in German. While the demonstrative pronoun required additional processing compared to the personal pronoun, prominence information did not affect resolution in shallow conditions. It did, however, affect resolution under deep processing conditions. We conclude that prominence information is not ruled out by the presence of stronger resolution cues such as gender. However, the deployment of prominence information in the evaluation of candidate antecedents is under strategic control.

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德语人称代词和指示代词解析中突出信息的时机

德语人称代词和指示代词在解释上有明显的偏好;人称代词的解释更为灵活，但往往倾向于使用一个突出的先行词，而指示词则强烈倾向于使用一个不突出的先行词。然而，关于在分辨率过程中如何使用突出信息的了解较少，特别是考虑到两阶段处理模型，该模型假设参考通常是最容易获得的候选者。我们进行了三个实验，研究突出信息是如何在德语中消除性别歧义的人称代词和指示代词的解决过程中使用的。与人称代词相比，指示代词需要额外的处理，但在浅层条件下，突出信息不影响解析。然而，在深加工条件下，它确实影响分辨率。我们得出结论，突出信息不排除存在更强的分辨率线索，如性别。然而，在候选前词的评价中，突出信息的部署是受战略控制的。

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Dialogue and Discourse Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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1.90

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