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Peer reviewedGordon, Peter C.; Hendrick, Randall; Ledoux, Kerry; Yang, Chin Lung – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1999
Five experiments used self-paced reading time to examine the ways in which complex noun phrases influence the interpretation of referentially dependent expressions. Results indicate that the entity introduced by a major constituent of a sentence is more accessible as a referent than the entities introduced by component noun phrases. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Linguistic Theory, Nouns
