Beyond salience: Interpretation of personal and demonstrative pronouns

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 292-313

  Brown Schmidt, Sarah ^a   Byron, Donna K ^b   Tanenhaus, Michael K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaphora; Cognitive status; Conceptual composite; Demonstrative; Eye tracking; Pronoun; Salience

Indexed keywords

EID: 20744458565     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2005.03.003     Document Type: Article

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