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    "pk": 31408,
    "title": "Parallelism in Pronoun Comprehension",
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    "abstract": "The aim of this study was to distinguish between two heuristic strategies proposed to account for the assignment of ambiguous pronouns: a subject assignment strategy and a parallel function strategy. According to the subject assignment strategy a pronoun is assigned to a preceding subject noun phrase, whereas according to the parallel function strategy a pronoun is assigned to a previous noun phrase with the same grammatical function. These two strategies were tested by examining the interpretation of ambiguous subject and non-subject pronouns. There was a strong preference for assigning both types of pronouns to preceding subject noun phrases which supported the subject assignment strategy. However the preference was reduced for non-subject pronouns compared to subject pronouns which we interpreted as evidence for grammatical parallelism. A subsidiary aim of the study was to investigate text-level effects of order-of-mention where a pronoun is assigned to a noun phrase which has been mentioned in the szmne sequential position. We did not observe any strong effects although we did observe a possible topic assignment strategy where topic-hood depended on order-ofmention. A post hoc inspection of the materials revealed possible effects of intra-sentential order-of-mention parallelism. We conclude that a subject assignment strategy, a parallel grammatical function strategy, a topic assignment strategy and a parallel order-of-mention strategy m a y all constrain the interpretation of ambiguous subject and non-subject pronouns.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Posters",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/68709154",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Alexandar",
            "middle_name": "W. R.",
            "last_name": "Nelson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Rosemary",
            "middle_name": "J.",
            "last_name": "Stevenson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Durham",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Keith",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Stenning",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
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        }
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "1992-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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