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    "title": "Semantic accessibility and interference in pronoun resolution",
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    "abstract": "<p>The general view in syntactic literature is that binding constraints can make antecedents syntactically inaccessible. However, several studies showed that antecedents which are ruled out by syntactic binding constraints still influence online processing of anaphora in some stages, suggesting that a cue-based retrieval mechanism plays a role during anaphora resolution. As in the syntactic literature, in semantic accounts like Discourse Representation Theory (DRT), formal constraints are formulated in terms of accessibility of the antecedent. We explore the discourse inaccessibility postulated in DRT by looking at its role in pronoun resolution of inter-sentential anaphoric relations in four off-line and two eye-tracking experiments. The results of the eye-tracking experiments suggest that accessibility has an effect on pronoun resolution from early on. The study quantifies evidence of inaccessible antecedents affecting pronoun resolution and shows that almost all evidence points to the conclusion that discourse-inaccessible antecedents are ruled out for pronoun resolution in processing. The only potential counter-example to this claim is also detected, but remains only as anecdotal evidence even after combining data from both eye-tracking studies. The findings in the study show that accessibility plays a significant role in the processing of pronoun resolution in a way which is potentially challenging for the cue-based retrieval mechanism. The paper argues that discourse accessibility can help expand the theories of retrieval beyond the syntactic and sentence-level domain and provides a window into the study of interference in discourse.</p>",
    "language": "eng",
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            "first_name": "Tijn",
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            "last_name": "Schmitz",
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            "institution": "Utrecht University",
            "department": "Linguistics"
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            "first_name": "Jan",
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            "last_name": "Hoeks",
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            "institution": "University of Santa Cruz",
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            "institution": "Utrecht University",
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            "last_name": "Dotlačil",
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            "institution": "Utrecht University",
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    "date_submitted": "2023-06-02T10:39:27.083000Z",
    "date_accepted": "2023-11-25T16:03:25.999000Z",
    "date_published": "2024-03-12T22:40:00Z",
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