Anaphoric patterning in English and Mandarin narrative production

Pu, Ming‐Ming

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“…A different direction of investigation is explored in Chen (1986), Tai (1978), Pu (1995Pu ( , 2011, and, to some extent, in Li and Thompson (1979), following a general structural model of discourse and the use of anaphora developed in Hinds (1977Hinds ( , 1979 and Fox (1987Fox ( , 1996. These works suggest that major and minor discontinuities in discourse structure cause alternations in the different anaphoric forms of reference that speakers regularly use.…”

Section: Previous Studies Of Zero and Overt Pronoun Use In Chinesementioning

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Grammatical roles, Coherence Relations, and the interpretation of pronouns in Chinese

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Li³

2016

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This paper reports on an experimental study of the interpretation of pronouns in Chinese which provides additional support for the proposal in Yang et al. (1999, 2003) that the resolution of pronominal reference in Chinese is more influenced by syntactic information than often assumed in approaches to discourse anaphora in Chinese such as Li and Thompson (1979), Givon (1983), Chen (1986), Christensen (2000), and Pu (2011), where the interpretation of such elements is solely attributed to semantic, pragmatic, and discourse structure-related factors. The paper makes use of a series of sentence completion tasks, adapted from Kehler and Rohde (2013) for Chinese, to try to tease apart the often complex roles played by syntactic position, Coherence Relations, and discourse structure.

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Section: Previous Studies Of Zero and Overt Pronoun Use In Chinesementioning

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Grammatical roles, Coherence Relations, and the interpretation of pronouns in Chinese

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Li³

2016

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“…The role of discourse connection in referential form choice has received much attention in the functional linguistics literature. In particular, much research on referential form choice in discourse prodrop languages, such as Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, suggests that the degree of interclausal connection (the degree of bondedness or closeness of the two clauses or sentences) plays a central role in the use of zero pronouns (e.g., Kim, 1992, for Korean; for Mandarin Chinese, Chen, 1986;Clancy, 1980;Kim, 1989Kim, , 1990Watanabe, 1994; for Japanese, Li & Thompson, 1979;Pu, 1995Pu, , 1997Tai, 1978). These studies suggest that zero pronouns are used to refer to a topical referent in sentences that are closely linked with each other or describe a closely related sequence of events.…”

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The influence of discourse continuity on referential form choice.

Hwang¹

2023

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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Much research in the functional linguistics literature suggests that the use of zero pronouns is driven by the degree of interclausal connection. Kim (1990, 1992) claims that in clause chain languages such as Korean and Japanese, zero pronouns are primarily used following an interclausal connective with a tight interclausal connection that maintains subject continuity (whether the subject referent is maintained or changed in the following clause) and action continuity (temporal sequence or action sequence is continued or interrupted in the following clause). Consistent with the claim, the results of Experiments 1 and 2 demonstrated that Korean speakers used more zero pronouns following a connective with higher subject continuity (Experiment 1) and action continuity (Experiments 1 and 2). The effect of connectives was observed when grammatical role, referential predictability, and coherence relation were controlled for (Experiment 2). These results are best explained by assuming the role of discourse continuity on referential form choice.

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“…The Brought to you by | Purdue University Libraries Authenticated Download Date | 5/27/15 8:47 AM 'protagonist' is defined as the leading character in a novel, the character who receives most of the reader's attention due to his or her regular appearance throughout the entire episode considered. The protagonist was chosen for this study because pragmatic information such as 'humanness' and 'centrality' tends to determine anaphoric choice (Fox 1987b;Pu 1995). Pu's (1995) experiment (though focusing on spoken language) concludes that human central referents are usually the subject of the narrative; they tend to be under focus and are discussed more frequently than are noncentral referents.…”

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“…The protagonist was chosen for this study because pragmatic information such as 'humanness' and 'centrality' tends to determine anaphoric choice (Fox 1987b;Pu 1995). Pu's (1995) experiment (though focusing on spoken language) concludes that human central referents are usually the subject of the narrative; they tend to be under focus and are discussed more frequently than are noncentral referents. (Pu 1995: 290) In other words 'the more central a referent is, the more it will be attended to, the longer it will remain in focus, and consequently, attenuated anaphoric devices will be used to code and identify it.…”

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Anaphoric choices in Japanese fictional novels: The discourse arrangement of noun phrases, zero and third person pronouns

Obana¹

2003

Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse

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By examining Japanese fictional novels, this article will discuss how anaphoric devices (noun phrases (NPs), third person pronouns (TPPs), and zero anaphors) are selected and arranged in a given discourse. The traditional view of anaphora considers the co-referential relationship between anaphoric devices to be syntagmatic; that is, a pronoun, for example, refers back to its antecedent. It also declares the hierarchical order of information values between anaphoric devices; NPs are semantically the most informative, indicating an episode boundary, and pronouns less informative. Furthermore, zero anaphora is the most referentially transparent, showing the most accessibility of a topic. However, real text shows the contrary. NPs occur frequently while there is no apparent discourse boundary, and the same episode is continuous. This is because zero anaphors and TPPs (if they occur) break down readily due to the nature of a forthcoming sentence and the NP is reinstated, in order to continue the same topic in a given discourse. Therefore, the article opposes the traditional view of anaphora. Based on the concept of text processing, using 'mental representations', this article will determine certain occurrence patterns of the three anaphoric devices.

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Anaphoric patterning in English and Mandarin narrative production

Cited by 11 publications

References 12 publications

Grammatical roles, Coherence Relations, and the interpretation of pronouns in Chinese

Grammatical roles, Coherence Relations, and the interpretation of pronouns in Chinese

The influence of discourse continuity on referential form choice.

Anaphoric choices in Japanese fictional novels: The discourse arrangement of noun phrases, zero and third person pronouns

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