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- Title
Sensitivity to Crossover Constraints During Native and Non-native Pronoun Resolution.
- Authors
Felser, Claudia; Drummer, Janna-Deborah
- Abstract
We report the results from two experiments examining native and non-native German speakers' sensitivity to crossover constraints on pronoun resolution. Our critical stimuli sentences contained personal pronouns in either strong (SCO) or weak crossover (WCO) configurations. Using eye-movement monitoring during reading and a gender-mismatch paradigm, Experiment 1 investigated whether a fronted wh-phrase would be considered as a potential antecedent for a pronoun intervening between the wh-phrase and its canonical position. Both native and non-native readers initially attempted coreference in WCO but not in SCO configurations, as evidenced by early gender-mismatch effects in our WCO conditions. Experiment 2 was an offline antecedent judgement task whose results mirrored the SCO/WCO asymmetry observed in our reading-time data. Taken together, our results show that the SCO constraint immediately restricts pronoun interpretation in both native and non-native comprehension, and further suggest that SCO and WCO constraints derive from different sources.
- Subjects
ENGLISH pronouns; CONSTRAINTS (Linguistics); ENGLISH language education -- German speakers; FRAMES (Linguistics); ENGLISH language terms &; phrases
- Publication
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017, Vol 46, Issue 3, p771
- ISSN
0090-6905
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10936-016-9465-8