This work investigates the processing of Italian subject pronouns, both the null and the overt
pronoun, in intra-sentential anaphora. A processing hypothesis is proposed, the Position of …

This chapter reviews the literature on preschool children's sensitivity to cognitive
accessibility in selecting linguistic forms to realize referents in speech. Both spontaneous …

As a part of language use, people need to refer to things, people, and ideas in ways that
they know their interlocutors will understand. Speakers must often choose among alternate …

Understanding any communication depends on the listener or reader recognizing that some
words refer to what has already been said or written (his, its, he, there, etc.). This mode of …

The so-called cartographic approach to discourse-related word-order variation is based on
the idea that particular interpretations—say, contrastive focus—are licensed in the specifier …

In this paper we report results from four psycholinguistic experiments on the resolution of the
Italian null subject pronoun (pro), supporting the view that different nominal phi-features …

The position of antecedent strategy (Carminati, 2002) claims that speakers of null-subject
languages prefer to resolve intrasentential anaphora by linking pro to an antecedent in the …

In languages with variable subject expression, or “pro-drop” languages, when do speakers
use subject pronouns? We address this question by investigating the linguistic conditioning …

This study reports the results of a picture verification task assessing the interpretation of intra-
sentential anaphora and cataphora in Italian by a group of English–Italian bilingual eight …

Establishing and maintaining reference is a crucial part of discourse. In spoken languages,
differential linguistic devices mark referents occurring in different referential contexts, that is …