TY  - JOUR
A1  - Felser, Claudia
A1  - Drummer, Janna-Deborah
T1  - Sensitivity to Crossover Constraints During Native and Non-native Pronoun Resolution
JF  - Journal of psycholinguistic research
N2  - We report the results from two experiments examining native and non-native German speakers’ sensitivity to crossover constraints on pronoun resolution. Our critical stimuli sentences contained personal pronouns in either strong (SCO) or weak crossover (WCO) configurations. Using eye-movement monitoring during reading and a gender-mismatch paradigm, Experiment 1 investigated whether a fronted wh-phrase would be considered as a potential antecedent for a pronoun intervening between the wh-phrase and its canonical position. Both native and non-native readers initially attempted coreference in WCO but not in SCO configurations, as evidenced by early gender-mismatch effects in our WCO conditions. Experiment 2 was an offline antecedent judgement task whose results mirrored the SCO/WCO asymmetry observed in our reading-time data. Taken together, our results show that the SCO constraint immediately restricts pronoun interpretation in both native and non-native comprehension, and further suggest that SCO and WCO constraints derive from different sources.
KW  - Strong crossover
KW  - Weak crossover
KW  - Pronoun resolution
KW  - Eye-movement monitoring
KW  - German
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-016-9465-8
SN  - 0090-6905
SN  - 1573-6555
VL  - 46
SP  - 771
EP  - 789
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Cunnings, Ian
A1  - Patterson, Clare
A1  - Felser, Claudia
T1  - Variable binding and coreference in sentence comprehension: Evidence from eye movements
JF  - Journal of memory and language
KW  - Pronoun resolution
KW  - Eye movements
KW  - Reading
KW  - Memory retrieval
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2013.10.001
SN  - 0749-596X
SN  - 1096-0821
VL  - 71
SP  - 39
EP  - 56
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - San Diego
ER  -