The Role of Context in Pronominal Reference to Higher Order Entities in English and Norwegian

Authors:
Jeanette K. Gundel;Kaja Borthen;Thorstein Fretheim
Affiliations:
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Venue:
CONTEXT '99 Proceedings of the Second International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context
Year:
1999

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Abstract

Production and understanding of different pronouns referring to higher order entities is sensitive to the distinction between entities assumed to be in focus for the addressee and those that are activated, but not in focus. Our study reveals that this distinction is influenced by the number of times an entity has been processed, regardless of whether such processing is triggered by overt linguistic or other contextual factors.