PMID- 26217248
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150728
LR  - 20240323
IS  - 1664-1078 (Print)
IS  - 1664-1078 (Electronic)
IS  - 1664-1078 (Linking)
VI  - 6
DP  - 2015
TI  - The influence of information status on pronoun resolution in Mandarin Chinese: 
      evidence from ERPs.
PG  - 873
LID - 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00873 [doi]
LID - 873
AB  - The purpose of this study is to shed light on the neural mechanisms underlying 
      the modulation of pronoun resolution processes by the information status of the 
      antecedent. Information status was manipulated by using a structurally based 
      constraint (e.g., order of mention) as well as a pragmatically based constraint 
      (i.e., topichood). We found that the pronouns referring to topic entities [the 
      initial noun phrase (NP) in Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) structure in Experiment 1 
      and OSV structure in Experiment 2] elicited attenuated P600 responses compared to 
      the pronouns referring to non-topic entities (the initial NP in SVO structure or 
      the second NP in OSV structure in both experiments) when potential interference 
      from structural constraints was controlled. The linear structural constraint, 
      namely the order of mention, had no clear influence on the P600 effect when the 
      syntactic structural constraint was held constant (i.e., when both entities were 
      syntactic subjects), regardless of whether one (Experiment 1) or two (Experiment 
      2) animate antecedents were present. These findings suggest that pragmatically 
      encoded features such as topichood and givenness can be processed separately from 
      structural constraints such as order of mention to promote the salient status of 
      a referent and thereby facilitate pronoun interpretation.
FAU - Xu, Xiaodong
AU  - Xu X
AD  - School of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Nanjing Normal University Nanjing, 
      China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20150706
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Front Psychol
JT  - Frontiers in psychology
JID - 101550902
PMC - PMC4491602
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - ERP
OT  - information status
OT  - order of mention
OT  - pronoun resolution
OT  - topic
EDAT- 2015/07/29 06:00
MHDA- 2015/07/29 06:01
PMCR- 2015/07/06
CRDT- 2015/07/29 06:00
PHST- 2014/07/30 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2015/06/12 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2015/07/29 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/07/29 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/07/29 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2015/07/06 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00873 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Front Psychol. 2015 Jul 6;6:873. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00873. eCollection 2015.