Anaphoric reference to mereological entities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11273636 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Derya Çokal (0000-0002-5653-1412, University of Cologne, corresponding author), Ruth Filik (0000-0001-9022-8364, Department of Psychology, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK), Patrick Sturt (0000-0002-2055-6933, Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK), Massimo Poesio (0000-0001-8469-2072, Queen Mary University of London) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 202-223 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Processes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-853X • E-ISSN: 1532-6950 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0163853x.2023.2197682 |
| OpenAlex | W4367172454 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 34 |
Corpus evidence suggests that in contexts in which the presence of multiple antecedents might favor plural reference, the disadvantage observed for singular reference may disappear if the potential antecedents are combined in a group-like plural entity. We examined the relative salience of antecedents in conditions where the context either made a group interpretation available (i.e., mereological entity) (e.g., The engineer hooked up the engine to the boxcar ..., where group = train), or not (e.g., The engineer detached the engine from the boxcar ...). Results from three experiments in which participants were asked to identify referents for singular versus plural pronouns (Experiment 1), to confirm the referents of pronouns in a sentence completion task (Experiment 2), and to provide paraphrases for given texts (Experiment 3), collectively provided evidence that the creation of a group makes that entity (i) a possible referent for singular anaphoric reference and (ii) more salient than its constituents
Context (archaeology · Disadvantage · Epistemology · Group (periodic table · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Mereology · Natural language processing · Plural · Pronoun · Referent · Salience (neuroscience · Salient · Sentence · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |