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    "pk": 31782,
    "title": "Strategies in Pronoun Comprehension",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "The aim of this study was to distinguish bet-\nween three heuristic strategies proposed to ac-\ncount for the assignment of ambiguous prono-\nuns: a subject assignment strategy, a paral-\nlel function strategy and a pwallel order-of-\nmention strategy. According to the subject\nassignment strategy a pronoun is assigned to\na preceding subject noun phrase. A parallel\nfunction strategy predicts that a pronoun will\nbe assigned to a noun phrase with a peirallel\ngrzunmatical function whereas a parallel order\nstrategy predicts that a pronoun will be a as-\nsigned to a noun phrase in a parallel position\nin a previous clause. These strategies were te-\nsted by examining the interpretation of ambi-\nguous subject and non-subject pronouns. T h e\nresults showed a bias to assign a pronoun to a\npreceding subject, suggesting the operation of\na subject assignment strategy. However, this\nbias was reversed for non-subject pronouns.\nThese pronouns showed a bias to preceding\nnon-subjects with parallel grammatical roles,\nthus supporting a parallel function hypothe-\nsis. Finally, the subject assignment bias was\nreduced w h e n a non-subject pronoun had a dif-\nferent grammaticaJ role from the non-subject\nantecedent, thus supporting a parallel order-of-\nmention strategy. W e conclude that all three\nstrategies m a y constrain the assignment of am-\nbiguous pronouns.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
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    "section": "Submitted Presentations",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8893q98p",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Rosemary",
            "middle_name": "J.",
            "last_name": "Stevenson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Durham",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Alexander",
            "middle_name": "W . R .",
            "last_name": "Nelson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Keith",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Stenning",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "1993-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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