Choosing anaphoric expressions: Do people take into account likelihood of reference?

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 52-66

  Fukumura, Kumiko ^a   van Gompel, Roger P G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaphor; Implicit causality; Language production; Pronouns; Reference; Repeated name penalty

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450267522     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2009.09.001     Document Type: Article

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