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The Role of Context in Pronominal Reference to Higher Order Entities in English and Norwegian

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Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 1999)

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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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  1. Linguistics, NTNU, N-7491, Trondheim, Norway

    Jeanette K. Gundel, Kaja Borthen & Thorstein Fretheim

  2. Linguistics, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Jeanette K. Gundel

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  1. University of Trento, DISA, 5, via Inama, I-38050, Trento, Italy

    Paolo Bouquet  & Massimo Benerecetti  & 

  2. IRST-ITC, Pante di Povo, I-38050, Trento, Italy

    Luciano Serafini

  3. University Paris VI, LIP6 4, Place Jussieu, F-75252, Paris Cedex 05, France

    Patrick Brézillon

  4. University of Trento, 26, via Verdi, I-38050, Trento, Italy

    Francesca Castellani

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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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