Assignment of reference to reflexives and pronouns in picture noun phrases: evidence from eye movements

@article{citeulike:2285427, abstract = {Most structural Binding Theories predict a complementary distribution between reflexives and pronouns in picture noun phrases containing possessors (e.g. "Ken's picture of himself/him"). In two head-mounted eye-tracking experiments, listeners frequently violated Binding Theory predictions for reflexives, often interpreting the reflexives as taking an antecedent outside of the binding domain, and violating complementarity assumptions. Moreover, the pattern and timing of the eye movements showed Binding Theory violations for reflexives during the earliest moments of reference resolution. The results demonstrate that either binding constraints must be reformulated to decouple pronouns and reflexives or all reflexives in picture noun phrases must be treated as logophors, and thus exempt from structural Binding Theory.}, author = {Runner, Jeffrey T. and Sussman, Rachel S. and Tanenhaus, Michael K. }, citeulike-article-id = {2285427}, doi = {10.1016/S0010-0277(03)00065-9}, journal = {Cognition}, keywords = {eyetracking, pronouns, reference-resolution, reflexives, visualworld}, month = {August}, number = {1}, pages = {B1--B13}, posted-at = {2008-01-24 17:20:11}, priority = {2}, title = {Assignment of reference to reflexives and pronouns in picture noun phrases: evidence from eye movements}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0010-0277(03)00065-9}, volume = {89}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2285427 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2285427 TI - Assignment of reference to reflexives and pronouns in picture noun phrases: evidence from eye movements JF - Cognition VL - 89 IS - 1 SP - B1 EP - B13 N2 - Most structural Binding Theories predict a complementary distribution between reflexives and pronouns in picture noun phrases containing possessors (e.g. "Ken's picture of himself/him"). In two head-mounted eye-tracking experiments, listeners frequently violated Binding Theory predictions for reflexives, often interpreting the reflexives as taking an antecedent outside of the binding domain, and violating complementarity assumptions. Moreover, the pattern and timing of the eye movements showed Binding Theory violations for reflexives during the earliest moments of reference resolution. The results demonstrate that either binding constraints must be reformulated to decouple pronouns and reflexives or all reflexives in picture noun phrases must be treated as logophors, and thus exempt from structural Binding Theory. KW - eyetracking KW - pronouns KW - reference-resolution KW - reflexives KW - visualworld AU - Runner, Jeffrey AU - Sussman, Rachel AU - Tanenhaus, Michael PY - 2003/08// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0010-0277(03)00065-9 ER -