Linguistic and cognitive prominence in anaphor resolution: Topic, contrastive focus and pronouns

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Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-18

  Cowles, H Wind ^a   Walenski, Matthew ^b   Kluender, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaphora; Constrastive; Cross modal; Discourse; Focus; Language processing; Mental models; Presupposition; Pronouns; Topic

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248367010     PISSN: 01677411     EISSN: 15728749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11245-006-9004-6     Document Type: Article

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