Backward- and forward-looking potential of anaphors

Personal pronouns and demonstratives contribute differently to the encoding of information in the mental model and they serve distinct backward- and forward-looking functions. While (unstressed) personal pronouns are the default means to indicate coreference with the most prominent discourse entity...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Petra B. Schumacher, Jana eBackhaus, Manuel eDangl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
ERP
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01746/full