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Järvikivi, Juhani; Schimke, Sarah; Pyykkönen-Klauck, Pirita – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
We often use pronouns like it or they without explicitly mentioned antecedents. We asked whether the human processing system that resolves such indirect pronouns uses the immediate visual-sensory context in multimodal discourse. Our results showed that people had no difficulty understanding conceptually central referents, whether explicitly…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Semantics, Language Usage