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  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Real-time pronoun interpretation sometimes shows sensitivity to grammatically incorrect antecedents.
  • This sensitivity has been interpreted as evidence against immediate structural constraint during antecedent retrieval.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To differentiate between initial antecedent retrieval and later processing effects in pronoun interpretation.
  • To investigate the immediate impact of structural constraints and agreement features on pronoun resolution.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted five reading comprehension experiments.
  • Analyzed sensitivity to grammatically-illicit antecedents in pronoun interpretation.
  • Examined the role of agreement features and structural constraints.

Main Results:

  • Results indicate that agreement features and structural constraints immediately constrain antecedent retrieval for pronoun interpretation.
  • Occasional sensitivity to illicit antecedents appears to be linked to post-retrieval repair mechanisms.
  • Distinguishes immediate retrieval effects from later processing stages.

Conclusions:

  • Structural constraints and agreement features play an immediate role in antecedent retrieval for pronoun interpretation.
  • The initial retrieval process is constrained, and apparent exceptions are likely due to subsequent error correction.
  • Refines understanding of real-time language processing and syntactic constraint application.