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Çokal, Derya; Sturt, Patrick – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2018
This article reports one eye-tracking and one sentence-completion experiment, examining the antecedent preferences for plural anaphora "they" and demonstrative "these." Our results show that the antecedent-grouping preference depends on type of referring expressions: specifically, the preference for "they" is to refer…
Descriptors: Preferences, Eye Movements, Sentence Structure, Educational Experiments
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Chamorro, Gloria; Sturt, Patrick; Sorace, Antonella – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
Previous research has shown L1 attrition to be restricted to structures at the interfaces between syntax and pragmatics, but not to occur with syntactic properties that do not involve such interfaces ("Interface Hypothesis", Sorace and Filiaci in "Anaphora resolution in near-native speakers of Italian." "Second Lang…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, English, Native Speakers, Spanish