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Fukumura, Kumiko; van Gompel, Roger P.G. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
Research has shown that following a sentence fragment such as "John impressed Mary because...," people are most likely to refer to John, whereas following "John admired Mary because...," Mary is the preferred referent. Two written completion experiments investigated whether such semantic biases affect the choice of anaphor (pronouns vs. names).…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Linguistics, Sentence Structure