Factors affecting resolution of anaphora with collective nouns in Russian
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2024/15/0022/000647Keywords:
anaphoric agreement, rhetorical structure, collective nouns, eye-tracking, experimental linguisticsAbstract
It is assumed that anaphoric agreement is more sensitive to semantic rather than grammatical information of an antecedent. Higher linear distance between a pronoun and its antecedent has proven to trigger semantic agreement, yet hierarchical distance is hardly examined in the research field. In the eye-tracking experiment, we investigated factors of linear and rhetorical (hierarchical) distance as well as the factor of working memory volume in their ability to facilitate interpretation of the number feature of a collective noun in Russian. The results indicate that linear distance is of great importance in interpreting pronouns, and the same is true for hierarchical distance.
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