Empirical perspectives on anaphora resolution / edited by Anke Holler and Katja Suckow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holler, Anke, editor.

Suckow, Katja, editor.

Series:

Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ; 563.

Linguistische Arbeiten, 0344-6727 ; Volume 563

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reference (Linguistics).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] : De Gruyter, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Traditionally, anaphor resolution focused on structural cues of the antecedent. Recently, the interaction between discourse factors and information structure affecting antecedent salience has been more thoroughly explored. This volume depicts selected peer-reviewed research papers that tackle issues in anaphor resolution from theoretical, empirical and experimental perspectives. These collected articles present a wide spectrum of cross-linguistic data (Dutch, German, Spanish, Turkish, Yurakaré) and also offer new results from L1 and L2 acquisition studies. Data interpretation span from typological to psycholinguistic viewpoints and are related to recent developments in linguistic theory. One data analysis puts the issue of anaphor resolution in a historical context. The experimental findings are complemented by reviews of the current literature on the role of discourse units.This volume gives a comprehensive overview of the state of discussion how the interaction between information structure and contextual discourse affects salience. That's why it will be welcomed by all linguists and psycholinguists who are theoretically and / or experimentally investigating several aspects of anaphor resolution.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Introduction

The role of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in pronoun resolution: A cross-linguistic overview

Effects of coherence on anaphor resolution, and vice versa: Evidence from French personal pronouns and anaphoric demonstratives

How clausal linking affects noun phrase salience in pronoun resolution

Information structure effects on null and overt subject comprehension in Spanish

Factors determining the choice of anaphora in Old High German – A survey of zero and personal pronoun usage in Otfrid

Constraints on choice of referring expression in Yurakaré

Strong indefinites in Turkish, referential persistence, and salience structure

Anaphoric reference by demonstrative pronouns in German. In search of the relevant parameters

Thematic role as prominence cue during pronoun resolution in German

Binding and coreference in non-native language processing

Children’s eye gaze reveals their use of discourse context in object pronoun resolution

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 29, 2016).

ISBN:

9783110464108

3110464101

9783110462326

311046232X

OCLC:

953661832