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Intuitive knowledge of linguistic co-reference

P C Gordon1, R Hendrick

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27559-3270, USA. pcg@gibbs.unc.edu

Cognition
|March 1, 1997
PubMed
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Native English speakers

Area of Science:

  • Linguistics
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Co-reference resolution is crucial for understanding sentence structure and meaning.
  • Contemporary binding theory offers principles for grammatical co-reference.
  • Previous research has not fully captured native speaker intuitions on co-reference.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To systematically investigate native English speakers' judgments of grammatical co-reference patterns involving names and pronouns.
  • To identify syntactic factors influencing co-reference within and between sentences.
  • To compare naive speaker intuitions with established syntactic theories, particularly binding theory.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic investigation of grammaticality judgments from competent, native English speakers.

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  • Analysis of co-reference patterns involving names and pronouns in various syntactic structures.
  • Comparison of empirical findings with predictions from contemporary syntactic theory.

    • Main Results:

    • Naive subjects exhibit consistent grammaticality intuitions aligning with some binding theory principles.
    • Subjects' judgments on reflexives and pronouns support the complementary distribution principle.
    • Significant divergence observed where subjects' co-reference judgments (name-pronoun, name-name, pronoun-name) are influenced by syntactic structure in ways not predicted by theory.
    • Syntactic prominence of names affects co-reference acceptability in name-pronoun and name-name sequences.
    • Pronoun-name co-reference is generally unacceptable and weakly influenced by syntactic prominence.

    Conclusions:

    • Native speaker intuitions partially support contemporary binding theory but also reveal systematic divergences.
    • Syntactic structure significantly influences co-reference judgments beyond current theoretical predictions.
    • A model is proposed to explain the mapping of syntactic representations to discourse representations for co-reference generalization.