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Reference in single sentences and in texts.

R A Crawley1, R J Stevenson

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Durham, England.

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
|May 1, 1990
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Readers prefer referring to sentence subjects when comprehending language, especially when the subject is also the text

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Understanding how humans process language is crucial for developing advanced AI.
  • Reference resolution, identifying what words refer to, is a key aspect of language comprehension.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate sentence and text comprehension strategies for reference terms.
  • Examine the role of sentence subjects and textual topics in pronoun resolution.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a sentence completion task across four experiments.
  • Manipulated sentence structure, text-level topics, and gender cues to analyze referent choice.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated a strong preference for assigning referents to sentence subjects, irrespective of gender cues.

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  • Found that textual topic influences referent choice and term type, with sentence subject salience amplified when it aligns with the topic.
  • Observed that pronoun presence activates a strategy to link pronouns to salient sentence subjects.

    • Conclusions:

    • Sentence subjects are highly salient in working memory during language processing.
    • Textual topic further enhances the salience of sentence subjects.
    • Pronoun resolution strategies prioritize the most salient referent, typically the sentence subject.