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    "title": "Connectives and clause order modulate Chinese pronoun resolution",
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    "abstract": "While Chinese null pronouns consistently demonstrate a subject preference, overt pronouns exhibit a subject preference in forward reference but not in backward reference. Previous studies have attributed this pattern to syntactically imposed constraints. However, Su (2020) proposed that this pattern arises from language-specific discourse constraints prohibiting subject referents for overt backward pronouns in temporal clauses but allowing them in non-temporal clauses. To examine Su's account, we administered an offline sentence judgment experiment with 100 Chinese-speaking adults. The experiment employed contextually ambiguous sentences, involving manipulations of pronoun form (null vs. overt), anaphora type (forward vs. backward) and clause/connective (deshihou ‘when', zhiqian/zhihou ‘before/after' and ruguo ‘if'). Our results partly confirmed Su's account: Chinese overt backward pronouns showed a subject preference in non-temporal ruguo ‘if' clauses and temporal zhiqian/zhihou ‘before/after' clauses, but not in temporal deshihou ‘when' clauses. These findings suggest potential influences of event structure on Chinese pronoun resolution.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Language Comprehension; Quantitative Behavior"
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    "section": "Abstracts with Poster Presentation (accepted as Abstracts)",
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        {
            "first_name": "Shuya",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Chen",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
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        {
            "first_name": "Patrick",
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            "last_name": "Sturt",
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            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
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            "first_name": "Vicky",
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            "last_name": "Chondrogianni",
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            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
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    "date_submitted": null,
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    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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