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Production and understanding of different pronouns referring to higher order entities is sensitive to the distinction between entities assumed to be in focus for the addressee and those that are activated, but not in focus. Our study reveals that this distinction is influenced by the number of times an entity has been processed, regardless of whether such processing is triggered by overt linguistic or other contextual factors.
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Gundel, J.K., Borthen, K., Fretheim, T. (1999). The Role of Context in Pronominal Reference to Higher Order Entities in English and Norwegian. In: Bouquet, P., Benerecetti, M., Serafini, L., Brézillon, P., Castellani, F. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1688. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48315-2_42
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