Greene S B, McKoon G, Ratcliff R
Psychology Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208.
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 1992 Mar;18(2):266-83. doi: 10.1037//0278-7393.18.2.266.
Psychological investigations of pronoun resolution have implicitly assumed that the processes involved automatically provide a unique referent for every pronoun. We challenge this assumption and propose a new framework for studying pronoun resolution. Drawing on advances in discourse representation and global memory modeling, this framework suggests that automatic processes may not always identify a unique referent for a pronoun. In 9 experiments, we demonstrate that, unlike noun anaphors, pronouns sometimes do not produce relative facilitation of their referents in comparison with nonreferents. We argue that research on pronoun resolution must consider the discourse contexts in which pronouns are likely to occur.
代词消解的心理学研究一直隐含地假定，所涉及的过程会自动为每个代词提供一个唯一的指代对象。我们对这一假设提出质疑，并提出了一个研究代词消解的新框架。借鉴话语表征和全局记忆建模的进展，该框架表明，自动过程可能并不总是能为代词确定一个唯一的指代对象。在9个实验中，我们证明，与名词指代不同，代词有时与非指代对象相比，并不会在其指代对象上产生相对促进作用。我们认为，代词消解的研究必须考虑代词可能出现的话语语境。
