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講 師：       Roumyana Slabakova 氏
           (イギリス サウサンプトン大学教授)

テーマ：    Are Pronouns Difficult Words?

要 旨：  Children acquiring their native language (L1) have
            been reported to have greater difficulty in
            interpreting pronouns than reflexives. In addition,
            they are less accurate when pronouns refer to
            referential antecedents (e.g., Mama Bear) than to
            quantified antecedents (e.g., every bear), and when
            they hear full pronouns as opposed to reduced
            pronouns. In this joint work with Lydia White, it is
            hypothesized that similar difficulties of interpretation
            will occur for (non-advanced) second language (L2)
            learners, due to an elevated computational burden,
            as argued for L1 acquisition by Reinhart (2006,
            2011). We report on an experiment with adult
            learners of English (L1s French and Spanish), using a
             truth-value judgment task. Participants interpreted
            reduced and full pronouns bound by referential and
            quantified antecedents in aurally presented test
            sentences. The learners’ performance was affected
            by type of pronoun and antecedent. When a
            referential antecedent is combined with a full
            pronoun, learners’ accuracy was significantly lower.
            These results are in line with Reinhart’s analysis of
            reference set computation in processing pronouns.
            We will discuss implications of these findings for
            language processing.


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