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O'Brien, Edward J.; Raney, Gary E.; Albrecht, Jason E.; Rayner, Keith – Discourse Processes, 1997
Finds that explicit anaphors only reactivated undergraduate students' target antecedents when they are both lexically and conceptually identical to a target antecedent; but as distance between an anaphor and its antecedent increased, even an explicit anaphor did not reactivate a target antecedent. Shows that distant antecedents were reactivated…
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