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October 2, 2025Open Access

Both Principle B and competition are necessary to explain pronominal disjoint reference effects

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BPBreanna Brigitte PratleyJPJed Sam Pizarro-GuevaraABAdina Camelia Bleotu

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Overview

Experiments reveal competition and semantic constraints affect coreference in sentences.

Key Points

  • Speakers often avoid using locally coreferent pronouns, indicating a strong preference against coreference.
  • In a context inference task, pronominal objects are generally rejected for coreference with subjects.
  • Evidence supports that disjoint reference effects involve both Principle B and competition among expressions.
  • Pragmatic reasoning may allow for some flexibility in interpreting non-reflexive object pronouns.

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Pratley et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68de5da283cbc991d0a2072ehttps://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6eqa5_v1
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