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Peer reviewedO'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…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Language Processing, Language Research
Direct linkFrazier, Lyn; Clifton, Charles; Rayner, Keith; Deevy, Patricia; Koh, Sungryong; Bader, Markus – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2005
Five experiments investigated the interpretation of quantified noun phrases in relation to discourse structure. They demonstrated, using questionnaire and on-line reading techniques, that readers in English prefer to give a quantified noun phrase in (VP-external) subject position a presuppositional interpretation, in which the noun phrase limits…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Verbs, Nouns
