TY - JOUR

T1 - Grammatical Parallelism Effect in Anaphora Resolution: Using Data from Russian to Choose between Theoretical Approaches

AU - Prokopenya, V.

AU - Chernigovskaya, T.

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - In the present study we explored structural parallelism, the preference of hearers to connect an unaccented pronoun to a referent occupying the same syntactic position. The traditional linguistic approach is based on the fact that referential preferences are associated with specific linguistic properties of potential antecedents of pronouns. Discourse-coherent approach is based on a hearer`s coherence-driven expectations about discourse continuation and supposes a structural parallelism effect to be a by-product of establishing relations, which provide the coherence of discourse. From this point of view, parallel reading is caused by information structure. In order to investigate the role of grammatical and information structures in the parallelism effect, and to choose between the theoretical approaches, we addressed a flexible word-order language, which has several ways of focusing, such as Russian. The two experiments demonstrated that the use of non-contrastive focusing strategy reveals parallelism bias t

AB - In the present study we explored structural parallelism, the preference of hearers to connect an unaccented pronoun to a referent occupying the same syntactic position. The traditional linguistic approach is based on the fact that referential preferences are associated with specific linguistic properties of potential antecedents of pronouns. Discourse-coherent approach is based on a hearer`s coherence-driven expectations about discourse continuation and supposes a structural parallelism effect to be a by-product of establishing relations, which provide the coherence of discourse. From this point of view, parallel reading is caused by information structure. In order to investigate the role of grammatical and information structures in the parallelism effect, and to choose between the theoretical approaches, we addressed a flexible word-order language, which has several ways of focusing, such as Russian. The two experiments demonstrated that the use of non-contrastive focusing strategy reveals parallelism bias t

KW - reference

KW - coherence

KW - pronouns in Russian

KW - information structure

KW - grammatical roles.

M3 - Article

VL - 5

SP - 85

EP - 95

JO - International Journal of Cognitive Research in Science, Engineering and Education

JF - International Journal of Cognitive Research in Science, Engineering and Education

SN - 2334-847X

IS - 1

ER -