Effects of Antecedent Distance and Intervening Text Structure in the Interpretation of Ellipses.

Garnham, A.

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Publication Date: 1987

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Effects of Antecedent Distance and Intervening Text Structure in the Interpretation of Ellipses.

Garnham, A.

Language and Speech, v30 pt1 p59-68 Jan-Mar 1987

Investigates the availability of surface representations for the interpretation of verb-phrase ellipsis. Results show that an elliptical verb phrase is most easily interpreted if its antecedent is in the immediately preceding sentence and that this can not be explained in terms of the unnaturalness of the passages with distant antecedents. (MM)

Descriptors: Encoding (Psychology), Grammar, Language Processing, Language Research, Linguistics, Phrase Structure, Retention (Psychology), Sentence Structure, Short Term Memory, Surface Structure

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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