Repeated-Name Penalty: a multifactorial effect
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https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2020.v16nEsp.a38165Keywords:
Experimental Psycholinguistics, Anaphoric Processing, Repeated-Name Penalty.Abstract
This article investigated the anaphoric processing of repeated names and full pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), focusing on theoretical and methodological aspects related to the effect of the repeated-name penalty (RNP), which consists of an increase in the cost of processing repeated names when compared with pronouns in establishing the coreference. In this study, we present two experiments that we conducted through the self-paced reading technique manipulating the factors: anaphor type (repeated name, full pronoun); number of human antecedents (one or two antecedents) and controlling the segmentation type/presentation of critical segment (presenting the whole sentence at once, presenting the anaphor in isolation). The results showed a possible interaction between these factors influencing the occurrence or not of the RNP, strengthening our general hypothesis that this penalty is a multifactorial effect, which could explain divergent results found in the RN literature in BP.
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