Publication: Efficiency in discourse processing: Does morphosyntax adapt to accommodate new referents?
Efficiency in discourse processing: Does morphosyntax adapt to accommodate new referents?
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Schnell, S., Schiborr, N. N., & Haig, G. (2021). Efficiency in discourse processing: Does morphosyntax adapt to accommodate new referents? Linguistics Vanguard, 7(s3), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0064
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The introduction of new referents into discourse has traditionally been regarded as a major challenge to language processing, for which speakers deploy specific syntactic configurations, guided by the speaker’s assessment of the recipient’s state of mind (‘recipient design’). In this paper we probe these assumptions against discourse data from nine languages. We find little evidence for specialized syntactic configurations accommodating new referents; the only notable exception is the association of new reference with direct objects,
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- Schiborr, Nils Norman
- Haig, Geoffrey
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Schnell, S., Schiborr, N. N., & Haig, G. (2021). Efficiency in discourse processing: Does morphosyntax adapt to accommodate new referents? Linguistics Vanguard, 7(s3), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0064
