How does similarity-based interference affect the choice of referring expression?

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 331-344

  Fukumura, Kumiko ^a   van Gompel, Roger P G ^b   Harley, Trevor ^b   Pickering, Martin J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaphor; Discourse; Language production; Pronoun; Referring expression; Similarity based interference

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052035352     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

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