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Many children struggle with reading for comprehension. Reading is a complex cognitive task depending on various sub-tasks, such as word decoding and building connections across sentences. The task of connecting sentences is guided by referential expressions. References, such as anaphoric noun phrases (Minky/the cat) or pronouns (Minky/she), signal to the reader how the protagonists of adjacent sentences are connected. Readers construct a coherent mental model of the text by resolving these references. Personal pronouns (he/she) in particular need to be resolved towards an appropriate antecedent before they can be fully understood. Pronoun resolution therefore is vital for successful text comprehension. The present thesis investigated children’s resolution of personal pronouns during natural reading as a possible source of reading comprehension difficulty. Three eye tracking studies investigated whether children aged 8-9 (Grade 3-4) resolve pronouns online during reading and how the varying information around the pronoun region ...
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Dissertation Universität Potsdam 2021
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Eilers, Sarah Children's processing of anaphora during reading comprehension Potsdam, 2021
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English
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Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.25932/publishup-52714
URN:
urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-527141
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https://d-nb.info/1251875114/34
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