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Fossard, Marion; Garnham, Alan; Cowles, H. Wind – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
Three experiments examined the hypothesis that the demonstrative noun phrase (NP) that N, as an anadeictic expression, preferentially refers to the less salient referent in a discourse representation when used anaphorically, whereas the anaphoric pronoun he or she preferentially refers to the highly-focused referent. The findings, from a sentence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nouns, Form Classes (Languages), Reading Comprehension