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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Coreference resolution theories primarily focus on linguistic factors influencing antecedent accessibility.
  • The impact of non-linguistic factors on coreferential access remains largely unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the influence of a non-linguistic generation task on coreference processing.
  • To examine how non-linguistic factors interact with linguistic factors in modulating antecedent accessibility and coreferential access.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Assessed the effect of a letter transposition generation task on online (event-related potentials) and offline (recognition memory) accessibility of names in word lists.
  • Experiment 2: Manipulated generation task and syntactic prominence of antecedent names in sentences, measuring online and offline accessibility and the repeated-name penalty.

Main Results:

  • Generation task significantly improved both online and offline accessibility of names.
  • Syntactic prominence also enhanced accessibility but uniquely elicited the repeated-name penalty.
  • The repeated-name penalty was observed only when syntactic prominence was manipulated, not with the generation task alone.

Conclusions:

  • The form of a referential expression interacts with discourse model status during coreference.
  • Memory availability and referential accessibility are dissociable constructs.
  • Coreference theories need to incorporate principles of human memory more effectively.