On the impact of clause order on pronoun resolution: evidence from Spanish

In research on intra-sentential pronominal anaphora resolution in null subject languages, it has been argued that null pronouns tend to be biased towards subject antecedents, whereas overt pronouns tend to prefer object antecedents, as predicted by Carminati’s ‘Position of the Antecedent Hypothesis’...

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Autores: Rocafiguera Montanyà, Núria de, Bel, Aurora
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
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Palabra clave:anaphora resolution
clause order
interpretive judgments
Spanish
subject pronouns
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spelling On the impact of clause order on pronoun resolution: evidence from SpanishRocafiguera Montanyà, Núria deBel, Auroraanaphora resolutionclause orderinterpretive judgmentsSpanishsubject pronounsIn research on intra-sentential pronominal anaphora resolution in null subject languages, it has been argued that null pronouns tend to be biased towards subject antecedents, whereas overt pronouns tend to prefer object antecedents, as predicted by Carminati’s ‘Position of the Antecedent Hypothesis’. However, these studies have mainly focused on only one of the two possible clause orders (main-subordinate or subordinate-main), which have not been overtly contrasted. This paper investigates the effects of clause order on the interpretation of third-person subject pronouns in globally ambiguous intra-sentential contexts by 49 native speakers of Spanish. The results of an acceptability judgment task explicitly comparing both clause orders indicate that relative clause order is a key factor affecting the interpretation of pronouns: while a preference of overt pronouns for object antecedents holds across clause orders, null pronouns show a bias towards subject antecedents only in subordinate-main sequences. These findings refine the Position of the Antecedent Hypothesis predictions by restricting them to subordinate-main complex sentences.This research has been supported by research grants awarded by the Spanish State Research Agency (FFI2016-75082-P and PID2020- 114276GB-I00) and by the Catalan Agency for Management of University and Research Grants through the FI program (2020FI_B2_00081).De Gruyter202320232021info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/56331http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/flin-2021-2002reponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésFolia Linguistica. 2021;56(1):1-24.info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PID2020-114276GB-I00info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/FFI2016-75082-P© De Gruyter Published version available at http://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/flin-2021-2002/html http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/flin-2021-2002info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/563312026-06-12T07:21:37Z
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title On the impact of clause order on pronoun resolution: evidence from Spanish
spellingShingle On the impact of clause order on pronoun resolution: evidence from Spanish
Rocafiguera Montanyà, Núria de
anaphora resolution
clause order
interpretive judgments
Spanish
subject pronouns
title_short On the impact of clause order on pronoun resolution: evidence from Spanish
title_full On the impact of clause order on pronoun resolution: evidence from Spanish
title_fullStr On the impact of clause order on pronoun resolution: evidence from Spanish
title_full_unstemmed On the impact of clause order on pronoun resolution: evidence from Spanish
title_sort On the impact of clause order on pronoun resolution: evidence from Spanish
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Rocafiguera Montanyà, Núria de
Bel, Aurora
author Rocafiguera Montanyà, Núria de
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Bel, Aurora
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv anaphora resolution
clause order
interpretive judgments
Spanish
subject pronouns
topic anaphora resolution
clause order
interpretive judgments
Spanish
subject pronouns
description In research on intra-sentential pronominal anaphora resolution in null subject languages, it has been argued that null pronouns tend to be biased towards subject antecedents, whereas overt pronouns tend to prefer object antecedents, as predicted by Carminati’s ‘Position of the Antecedent Hypothesis’. However, these studies have mainly focused on only one of the two possible clause orders (main-subordinate or subordinate-main), which have not been overtly contrasted. This paper investigates the effects of clause order on the interpretation of third-person subject pronouns in globally ambiguous intra-sentential contexts by 49 native speakers of Spanish. The results of an acceptability judgment task explicitly comparing both clause orders indicate that relative clause order is a key factor affecting the interpretation of pronouns: while a preference of overt pronouns for object antecedents holds across clause orders, null pronouns show a bias towards subject antecedents only in subordinate-main sequences. These findings refine the Position of the Antecedent Hypothesis predictions by restricting them to subordinate-main complex sentences.
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