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Peer reviewedShillcock, Richard – Language and Speech, 1982
An experiment is reported that uses cross-modal priming to look at the resolution of anaphoric reference. Subjects given a visual lexical decision test simultaneously with an auditorily presented sentence showed selective semantic activation of the pronoun's referent on the basis of the pronoun's lexical properties. This finding is discussed in…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Language Processing, Language Research, Pronouns
