Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2023 Oct;76(10):2256-2284. doi: 10.1177/17470218231157268. Epub 2023 Mar 23.
The present study provides converging evidence across three next-mention biases that likelihood of coreference influences the choice of referring expression: implicit causality (IC), the goal bias of transfer-of-possession (ToP) verbs, and implicit consequentiality (I-Cons). A pilot study and four experiments investigated coreference production in German using a forced-reference paradigm. The pilot study used object- and subject-biased IC verbs, showing a statistically marginal influence of next-mention bias on referential expressions, albeit mediated by grammatical function and feature overlap between antecedents. Experiment 1 focused on these features for object reference with ToP verbs, showing effects of coreference bias. In a within-participants comparison, Experiment 2 showed comparable effects for two classes of IC verbs, stimulus-experiencer and experiencer-stimulus predicates. Experiment 3 replicated and extended the IC form effects to another verb class, agent-evocator verbs. Finally, Experiment 4 revealed effects on anaphoric form also for I-Cons, while simultaneously replicating the effect observed for IC.
本研究通过三个后续提及偏向提供了汇聚证据，表明核心参照的可能性会影响指称表达的选择：隐含因果关系（IC）、传递所有权（ToP）动词的目标偏向以及隐含结果性（I-Cons）。一项先导研究和四项实验使用强制参照范式在德语中研究了核心参照的产生。先导研究使用了对象偏向和主语偏向的 IC 动词，表明后续提及偏向对指称表达有统计学上的边际影响，但受到先行词的语法功能和特征重叠的中介。实验 1 专注于 ToP 动词的对象参照的这些特征，显示出核心参照偏向的影响。在参与者内比较中，实验 2 显示了两类 IC 动词，刺激-体验者和体验者-刺激谓语，具有类似的影响。实验 3 将 IC 形式的影响复制并扩展到另一个动词类，即施动者唤起动词。最后，实验 4 揭示了 I-Cons 对回指形式的影响，同时复制了对 IC 观察到的影响。
