In:
The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A, SAGE Publications, Vol. 57, No. 5 ( 2004-07), p. 893-933
Abstract:
This paper examines the automatic and strategic use of gender information in pronominal processing. Experiments 1 and 2 used short sentences where a pronoun was preceded by two potential antecedents. Results showed that even when adult readers did not use pronominal gender to strategically accelerate pronominal resolution, they remained sensitive to a gender disagreement between the pronoun and its potential referents. This gender sensitivity was further explored in Experiments 3 and 4. These experiments used longer texts where only one of the two potential referents was highly accessible when the pronoun was encountered. A gender disagreement between the pronoun and this antecedent induced longer reading times. The four experiments confirm the existence of a nonstrategic gender coindexation process between a pronoun and the entity in the focus of a discourse.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0272-4987
,
1464-0740
DOI:
10.1080/02724980343000549
Language:
English
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Publication Date:
2004
detail.hit.zdb_id:
1467172-4
SSG:
5,2
