Structural and semantic constraints on the resolution of pronouns and reflexives

Cognition

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-80

  Kaiser, Elsi ^a   Runner, Jeffrey T ^b   Sussman, Rachel S ^c   Tanenhaus, Michael K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaphors; Eye tracking; Interaction of syntactic and discourse semantic information; Picture NP construction; Pronouns; Reference resolution; Reflexives

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349261551     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.03.010     Document Type: Article

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