A Study of Zero Anaphora Resolution in Chinese Discourse: From the Perspective of Psycholinguistics.

ABSTRACT: Anaphora is the main linguistic means to establish discourse coherence, and anaphora resolution is the psychological process to maintain this coherence. Chinese discourse is characterized with providing multiplicity of linguistic clues to readers by employing various referential apparatuses such as pronoun anaphora, zero anaphora, and so on. As a way of avoiding repeated reference to an object that is mentioned beforehand, zero anaphora is frequently employed in discourse. The production and resolution of zero anaphora largely concerns some constraints underlying psychological mechanisms. We particularly focus on zero anaphora resolution in the present study to try to discover some specific aspects of the underlying mechanism, hoping to find out some factors unique to the resolution proces

SUBMITTER: Yang N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8581763 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature