Processing reflexives and pronouns in picture noun phrases

Cognitive Science

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 193-241

  Runner, Jeffrey T ^a   Sussman, Rachel S ^a   Tanenhaus, Michael K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Binding theory; Early filter; Eye tracking; Logophors; Multiple constraints; Picture noun phrases; Pronouns; Reflexives; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646452265     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15516709cog0000_58     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. Allopenna, P. D., Magnuson, J. S., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (1998). Tracking the time course of spoken word recognition: Evidence for continuous mapping models. Journal of Memory and Language, 38, 419-439.
2. Arnold, J. E., Eisenband, J. G., Brown-Schmidt, S., & Trueswell, J. C. (2000). The rapid use of gender information: Evidence of the time course of pronoun resolution from eye-tracking. Cognition, 76, B13-B26.
3. Badecker, W., & Straub, K. (2002). The processing role of structural constraints on the interpretation of pronouns and anaphors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28, 748-769.
4. Belletti, A., & Rizzi, L. (1988). Psych-verbs and χ-theory. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 6, 291-352.
5. Bresnan, J. (2001). Lexical functional syntax. Oxford, England: Blackwell.
6. Brown-Schmidt, S., Byron, D., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2005). Beyond salience: Interpretation of personal and demonstrative pronouns. Journal of Memory and Language.
7. Chambers, C. G., Tanenhaus, M. K., Eberhard, K. M., Filip, H., & Carlson, G. N. (2002). Circumscribing referential domains in real-time language comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 47, 30-49.
8. Chisholm, M. (2003). Ellipsis in DP. Unpublished master's thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz.
9. Chomsky, N. (1980). On binding. Linguistic Inquiry, 11, 1-46.
10. Chomsky, N. (1981). Lectures on government and binding. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Foris.
11. Chomsky, N. (1986). Knowledge of language. New York: Praeger.
12. Chomsky, N. (1995). The minimalist program. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
13. Clements, G. N. (1975). The logophoric pronoun in Ewe: Its role in discourse. Journal of West African Languages, 10, 141-177.
14. Clifton, C., Jr., Kennison, S. M., & Albrecht, J. (1997). Reading the words "her," "his," and "him": Implications for parsing principles based on frequency and structure. Journal of Memory and Language, 36, 276-292.
15. Cohen J. D., MacWhinney B., Flatt M., & Provost J. (1993). PsyScope: A new graphic interactive environment for designing psychology experiments. Behavioral Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 25, 257-271.
16. Cooper, R. M. (1974). The control of eye fixation by the meaning of spoken language: A new methodology for the real-time investigation of speech perception, memory and language processing. Cognitive Psychology, 6, 84-107.
17. Crosswhite, K., Masharov, M., McDonough, J. M, & Tanenhaus, M. K. (under revision). Phonetic cues to word length in the online processing of onset-embedded word pairs. Journal of Phonetics.
18. Dahan, D., Magnuson, J. S., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2001). Time course of frequency effects in spoken-word recognition: Evidence from eye movements. Cognitive Psychology, 42, 317-367.
19. Dahan, D., Magnuson, J. S., Tanenhaus, M. K., & Hogan, E. M. (2002). Subcategorical mismatches and the time course of lexical access: Evidence for lexical competition. Language and Cognitive Processes, 16, 507-534.
20. Dahan, D., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2004). Continuous mapping from sound to meaning in spoken-language comprehension: Immediate effects of verb-based thematic constraints. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 498-513.
21. Dahan, D., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2005). Looking at the rope when looking for the snake: Conceptually mediated eye movements during spoken-word recognition. Psychological Bulletin and Review.
22. Dalrymple, M. (2001). Lexical functional grammar. New York: Academic.
23. Davies, W., & Dubinsky, S. (2003). On extraction from NPs. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 21, 1-37.
24. Everaert, M. (2003). Reflexives in discourse. In J. Koster & H. Van Riemsdijk (Eds.), Germania et Alia: A linguistic Webschrift for Hans den Besten. Retrieved September 23, 2005, from http://odur.let.rug.nl/ ~koster/DenBesten/contents.htm
25. Eberhard, K. M., Spivey-Knowlton, M. J., Sedivy, J., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (1995). Eye movements as a window into real-time spoken language comprehension in natural contexts. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 24, 409-436.
26. Garnham, A. (2001). Mental models and the interpretation of anaphora. Philadelphia: Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis.
27. Goldwater, M., & Runner, J. T. (in press). Coreferential interpretations of reflexives in picture noun phrases: An experimental approach. In P. Denis, E. McCready, A. Palmer, & B. Reese (Eds.), Proceedings of the Texas Linguistics Society 8. Austin, TX: University of Texas.
28. Gordon, P., & Hendrick, R. (1997). Intuitive knowledge of linguistic co-reference. Cognition, 62, 325-370.
29. Grodzinsky, Y., & Reinhart, T. (1993). The innateness of binding and coreference. Linguistic Inquiry, 24, 69-101.
30. Hagege, C. (1974). Les pronoms logophoriques. Bulletin de la Societe de Linguistique de Paris, 69, 287-310.
31. Hanna, J., Tanenhaus, M. K., & Trueswell, J. C. (2003). The effects of common ground and perspective on domains of referential interpretation. Journal of Memory and Language, 49, 42-61.
32. Hobbs, J. R. (1978). Resolving pronoun references. Lingua, 44, 311-338.
33. Jarvikivi, J., van Gompel, R. P. G., Hyona, J., & Bertram, R. (2005). Ambiguous pronoun resolution: Contrasting the first-mention and subject-preference accounts. Psychological Science, 4, 260-264.
34. Kaiser, E. (2003). The quest for a referent: A crosslinguistic look at reference resolution. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
35. Kaiser, E., Runner, J. T., Sussman, R. S., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (in press). The interpretation of pronouns and reflexives in picture noun phrases: Effects of non-structural factors. In A. Alcazar, R. Mayoral Hernandez, & M. Temkin Martinez (Eds.), Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics 2004. Fresno: California State University at Fresno.
36. Kaiser, E., & Trueswell, J. C. (in press). Investigating the interpretation of pronouns and demonstratives in Finnish: Going beyond salience. In E. Gibson & N. Pearlmutter (Eds.), The processing and acquisition of reference. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
37. Keller, F., & Asudeh, A. (2001). Constraints on linguistic coreference: Structural vs. pragmatic factors. In J. D. Moore & K. Stenning (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 483-488). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
38. Kennison, S. (2003). Comprehending the pronouns "her," "him" and "his": Implications for theories of referential processing. Journal of Memory and Language, 49, 335-352.
39. Kiparsky, P. (2002). Disjoint reference and the typology of pronouns. In I. Kaufmann & B. Stiebels (Eds.), More than words (pp. 179-226). Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
40. Kuno, S. (1987). Functional syntax: Anaphora, discourse and empathy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
41. Langacker, R. (1969). On pronominalization and the chain of command. In D. A. Reibel & S. A. Schane (Eds.), Modern studies in English (pp. 160-186). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
42. Larson, R. (1988). On the double object construction in English. Linguistic Inquiry, 19, 589-637.
43. Lasnik, H. (1976). Remarks on coreference. Linguistic Analysis, 2, 1-22.
44. Lasnik, H. (1989). Essays on anaphora. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer.
45. Magnuson, J. S., Tanenhaus, M. K., Aslin, R. N., & Dalian, D. (2003). The time course of spoken word learning and recognition: Studies with artificial lexicons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 132, 202-227.
46. Nicol, J., & Swinney, D. (1989). The role of structure in coreference assignment during sentence processing. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 18, 5-19.
47. Pollard, C., & Sag, I. (1992). Anaphors in English and the scope of binding theory. Linguistic Inquiry, 23, 261-303.
48. Pollard, C., & Sag, I. (1994). Head-driven sentence structure grammar. Chicago: CSLI/University of Chicago Press.
49. Reinhart, T. (1976). The syntactic domain of anaphora. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
50. Reinhart, T., & Reuland, E. (1993). Reflexivity. Linguistic Inquiry, 24, 657-720.
51. Ross, J. R. (1969). On the cyclic nature of English pronominalization. In D. A. Reibel & S. A. Schane (Eds.), Modern studies in English (pp. 187-200). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
52. Runner, J. T., & Kaiser, E. (2005). Binding in picture noun phrases: Implications for binding theory. In S. Müller (Ed.), The Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar Department of Informatics, University of Lisbon (pp. 594-613). Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
53. Runner, J. T., Sussman, R. S., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2003). Assignment of reference to reflexives and pronouns in picture noun phrases: Evidence from eye movements. Cognition, 81, B1-B13.
54. Sag, I. (1976). Deletion and logical form. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
55. Salverda, A., Dahan, D., Tanenhaus, M. K., Masharov, M., Crosswhite, K., & McDonough, J. M. (in press). Prosodic effects on lexical competitors. Manuscript submitted for publication.
56. Salverda, A. P., Dahan, D., & McQueen, J. M. (2003). The role of prosodic boundaries in the resolution of lexical embedding in speech comprehension. Cognition, 90, 51-89.
57. Sanford, A. J., Garrod, S., Lucas, A., & Henderson, R. (1983). Pronouns without explicit antecedents. Journal of Semantics, 2, 303-318.
58. Sells, P., Zaenen, A., & Zec, D. (1987). Reflexivization variation: Relations between syntax, semantics and lexical structure. In M. Iida et al. (Eds.), Working papers in grammatical theory and discourse structure. Stanford, CA: CSLI.
59. Sturt, P. (2003). The time-course of the application of binding constraints in reference resolution. Journal of Memory and Language, 48, 542-562.
60. Tanenhaus, M. K., Magnuson, J. S., Dahan, D., & Chambers, C. (2000). Eye movements and lexical access in spoken-language comprehension: Evaluating a linking hypothesis between fixations and linguistic processing. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29, 557-580.
61. Tanenhaus, M. K., Spivey-Knowlton, M. J., Eberhard, K. M., & Sedivy, J. E. (1995). Integration of visual and linguistic information in spoken language comprehension. Science, 268, 632-634.
62. Tetreault, J. R. (2001). A corpus-based evaluation of centering and pronoun resolution. Computational Linguistics, 27, 507-520.
63. Tetreault, J. R., & Allen, J. (2004, July). Semantics, dialogue, and pronoun resolution. Paper presented at CATALOG'04, Barcelona, Spain.