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    "pk": 25559,
    "title": "Pronominal Reference and Pragmatic Enrichment: A Bayesian Account",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "A standard assumption in linguistic, psycholinguistic, and\ncomputational research on pronoun use is that production and\ninterpretation are guided by the same set of contextual factors.\nKehler et al. (2008) and Kehler & Rohde (2013) have argued\ninstead for a Bayesian model, one in which pronoun production\nis insensitive to a class of semantically- and pragmaticallydriven\ncontextual biases that have been shown to influence pronoun\ninterpretation. Here we evaluate the model using a passage\ncompletion study that employs a subtle contextual manipulation\nto which traditional analyses are insensitive, specifically\nby varying whether or not a relative clause that modifies\nthe direct object in the context sentence invites the inference\nof a cause of the event that the sentence denotes. The results\nsupport the claim that pronoun interpretation biases, but not\nproduction biases, are sensitive to this pragmatic enrichment,\nrevealing precisely the asymmetry predicted by the Bayesian\nanalysis. A correlation analysis further establishes that the\nmodel provides better estimates of measured pronoun interpretation\nbiases than two competing models from the literature.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Pronoun interpretation"
        },
        {
            "word": "discourse coherence"
        },
        {
            "word": "pragmatic enrichment"
        },
        {
            "word": "Bayesian models"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9cj2g2mr",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Andrew",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kehler",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UCSD",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Hannah",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Rohde",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}