Rules of Engagement: Incomplete and Complete Pronoun Resolution

Autor/inn/en	Love, Jessica; McKoon, Gail
Titel	Rules of Engagement: Incomplete and Complete Pronoun Resolution
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37 (2011) 4, S.874-887 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/a0022932
Schlagwörter	Priming; Evidence; Form Classes (Languages); Coding; Experiments; Memory; Reading; Recognition (Psychology); Stimuli; Sentences; Higher Education; Undergraduate Students; Educational Psychology; Intervals; Probability; Nouns; Ohio + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Evidenz; Analytischer Sprachbau; Codierung; Programmierung; Erprobung; Gedächtnis; Leseprozess; Lesen; Recognition; Wiedererkennen; Anreizsystem; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Erziehungspsychologie; Pädagogische Psychologie; Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung; Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie
Abstract	Research on shallow processing suggests that readers sometimes encode only a superficial representation of a text and fail to make use of all available information. Greene, McKoon, and Ratcliff (1992) extended this work to pronouns, finding evidence that readers sometimes fail to automatically identify referents even when these are unambiguous. In this paper we revisit those findings. In 11 recognition probe, priming, and self-report experiments, we manipulated Greene et al.'s stories to discover under what circumstances a pronoun's referent is automatically understood. We lengthened the stories from 4 to 8 lines. This simple manipulation led to automatic and correct resolution, which we attribute to readers' increased engagement with the stories. We found evidence of resolution even when the additional text did not mention the pronoun's referent. In addition, our results suggest that the pronoun temporarily boosts the referent's accessibility, an advantage that disappears by the end of the next sentence. Finally, we present evidence from memory experiments that supports complete pronoun resolution for the longer but not the shorter stories. (Contains 9 tables.) (As Provided).
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