Sentence representations and anaphor processing |
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Authors: | Ronan G Reilly |
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Institution: | (1) Educational Research Centre, St. Patrick's College, Dublin 9, Ireland |
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Abstract: | This paper describes the use of anaphora to explore the nature of the representation constructed during the on-line processing of sentences. The central concern of the study was to discover whether this representation is componential or holistic. It was found that subjects took longer to resolve references to objects rather than events and, more interesting, that the componential complexity of the target representation affected the speed of anaphor resolution. The results suggest that events are represented differently from objects, and that the representation of events is componential. |
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