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Antecedent frequency effects during the processing of pronouns

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Majid,  Asifa
Language and Cognition Group, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Event Representation, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Van Gompel, R. P., & Majid, A. (2003). Antecedent frequency effects during the processing of pronouns. Cognition, 90(3), 255-264. doi:10.1016/S0010-0277(03)00161-6.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-16E5-D
Abstract
An eye-movement reading experiment investigated whether the ease with which pronouns are processed is affected by the lexical frequency of their antecedent. Reading times following pronouns with infrequent antecedents were faster than following pronouns with frequent antecedents. We argue that this is consistent with a saliency account, according to which infrequent antecedents are more salient than frequent antecedents. The results are not predicted by accounts which claim that readers access all or part of the lexical properties of the antecedent during the processing of pronouns.