The advantage of first mention in Spanish |
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Authors: | Manuel Carreiras Morton Ann Gernsbacher Victor Villa |
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Institution: | 1. Departamento de Psicología Cognitiva, Universidad de La Laguna, 38200, Tenerife, Spain 2. University of Wisconsin, 1202 W. Johnson Street, 53706-1611, Madison, WI 3. University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas
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Abstract: | An advantage of first mention—that is, faster access to participants mentioned first in a sentence—has previously been demonstrated only in English. We report three experiments demonstrating that the advantage of first mention occurs also in Spanish sentences, regardless of whether the first-mentioned participants are syntactic subjects, and regardless, too, of whether they are proper names or inanimate objects. Because greater word-order flexibility is allowed in Spanish than in English (e.g., nonpassive object-verb-subject constructions exist in Spanish), these findings provide additional evidence that the advantage of first mention is a general cognitive phenomenon. |
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