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Antecedent reactivation by surface and deep anaphora in Norwegian
Author(s) -
HESTVIK ARILD,
NORDBY HELGE,
KARLSEN GEIR
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2005.00452.x
Subject(s) - antecedent (behavioral psychology) , psychology , anaphora (linguistics) , norwegian , cognitive psychology , social psychology , linguistics , artificial intelligence , resolution (logic) , philosophy , computer science
Anaphora are expressions in language that depend on other linguistic entities for their full meaning. They can furthermore be divided into two types according to the level of representation where they find their antecedents: Surface anaphora , which resolve their reference at the sentence representation level, and deep anaphora , which resolve their reference at the non‐grammatical level of discourse representation. The linguistic theory of these two anaphor types, and recent findings about processing differences at these two levels, combine to predict that surface anaphora should show fast and immediate reactivation of their antecedents, whereas deep anaphora should have a slower time course of antecedent reaccess. These predictions were confirmed with two lexical decision task experiments with Norwegian stimuli.