The Tracking of Referents in Discourse: Automated versus Attended Processes.

Abstract

The cognitive processes involved in achieving the overall coherence of discourse are central to an understanding of the use of natural language in communication. The present series of studies examines the mental effort involved in achieving coreference. We explore a major factor that affects the accessibility of referents: the length of absence of the referent from the distribution of different types of grammatical referential devices in discourse have shown a correlation between the type of device (e.g. full noun). Keywords: psycholinguistics, discourse processing, referential coherence, anaphor resolution, syntax of reference, cognitive processes in coreference, attentional vs. automatic processing. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 15, 1985
Accession Number
ADA157583

Entities

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  • Michael I. Posner
  • P. Yee
  • T. Givon
  • W. Kellogg

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  • University of Oregon

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  • Human Systems

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  • Abstracts
  • Acquisition
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automatic
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Science
  • Grammars
  • Information Processing
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Materials
  • Mental Processes
  • Natural Languages
  • Personality
  • Psychology
  • Reaction Time
  • Statistical Analysis

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  • Linguistics

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  • Computational Linguistics
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.