Open AccessThe processing of cataphora coreference in Brazilian Portuguese
Author(s) -
Pablo de Almeida,
José Ferrari Neto
Publication year - 2020
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.36505/exling-2020/11/0020/000435
Subject(s) - coreference , portuguese , constraint (computer aided design) , computer science , mechanism (biology) , artificial intelligence , computation , process (computing) , brazilian portuguese , resolution (logic) , natural language processing , algorithm , linguistics , epistemology , mathematics , philosophy , programming language , geometry
This study aimed to explore whether the processing of cataphoric coreference in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) is guided by a top-down strategy as postulated by the active search mechanism (ASM) or by a bottom-up routine, as well as if this process is restricted by the Principle C constraint. The results revealed that ASM is not a mechanism used to solve the intended coreference in BP and that the participants have demonstrated sensitiveness to establish the coreference while they had to interpret it. In addition, there is evidence that illicit antecedents are not considered during cataphoric resolution, which suggests that the Principle C constraint impacts on the processing and seems to not be violated during the time course of the computation.