A probabilistic reconciliation of coherence-driven and centering-driven theories of pronoun interpretation

Theoretical Linguistics

Volumn 39, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 1-37

  Kehler, Andrew ^a   Rohde, Hannah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discourse coherence; Pronoun interpretation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888616447     PISSN: 03014428     EISSN: 16134060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/tl-2013-0001     Document Type: Article

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