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Eilers, Sarah; Tiffin-Richards, Simon P.; Schroeder, Sascha – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2019
Children struggle with the resolution of pronouns during reading, but little is known about the sources of their difficulties. We conducted a longitudinal eye tracking experiment with 70 children in the final years of primary school. The children read sentences with a contextual resolution preference in which gender was either an informative…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Eye Movements, Longitudinal Studies, Elementary School Students
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Arnold, Jennifer E. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2015
Two experiments examine how men and women interpret pronouns in discourse. Adults are known to show a strong "first-mention bias": When two characters are mentioned ("Michael played with William…"), comprehenders tend to interpret subsequent pronouns as coreferential with the first of the two characters and to find pronouns…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Form Classes (Languages), Literary Genres, Eye Movements