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Direct linkHwang, Heeju – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
It is well known that English speakers produce fewer pronouns when discourse contexts include more than one entity that matches the gender of the pronoun, i.e., gender effect. It is controversial, however, what causes the gender effect. Some suggest that it results from speakers' avoidance of linguistic ambiguity, while others suggest that it…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Ambiguity (Semantics), Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers
