• Title/Summary/Keyword: plural referential

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The Role of Syntactic Cues in Pronoun Referential Resolution: The Effects of Number Cue and Gender Cue (대명사의 통사단서가 참조해결과정에 미치는 효과: 대명사의 수 단서와 성별 단서)

  • Lee Jae-Ho
    • Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.25-33
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    • 2004

  • Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of two syntactic cues in pronoun referential resolution: number cue (plural or singular) and gender cue (unambiguous or ambiguous). Using self-paced sentence reading task for pronoun sentences and lexical decision task for antecedents, Experiment 1 showed that the reading time of a plural pronoun ('they') was faster than a singular pronoun ('he' or 'she'), but the lexical decision time did not differ with a number cue and a Bender cue. In Experiment 2, using RSVP for pronoun sentences and lexical decision task for antecedents, the results showed that the lexical decision time differed for a gender cue only. These results suggested that the syntactic cues of a pronoun influenced strongly on referential resolution in discourse comprehension.

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