Accessibility theory: An overview

By Mira Ariel. 2001

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Language and Linguistics

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Establishing coherence relations in discourse: The influence of implicit causality and connectives on pronoun resolution (2013, background): “, most accessible see Ariel, 2001) antecedent, a subsequent pronoun is processed more quickly if it refers to the biased antecedent. In other words, this competing account assumes that implicit causality information affects comprehension much more rapidly (Greene & McKoon, 1995; Koornneef & Van Berk”
Interpreting pronouns and demonstratives in Finnish: Evidence for a form-specific approach to reference resolution (2008, background): “The implications of our findings are most relevant for languages that have two (or more) anaphoric forms that cannot be distinguished on the basis of their informativity, such as Finnish hän and tämä or English it and this/that (see Ariel 2001, p. 29).”
Locality and Accessibility in Wh-Questions (2007, background): “In addition to marking a current degree of activation, the form of NPs also partially determines the degree of activation subsequent to their utterance—referred to as future accessibility by Ariel (2001).”
ONLINE PRONOUN RESOLUTION IN L2 DISCOURSE: L1 Influence and General Learner Effects (2008, background): “…is , the most reduced referring expressions , such as null pronominals and unstressed pronouns in nonnull subject languages , signal coreference with the most highly salient or accessible antecedent in the current discourse representation ~ Ariel , 1990 , 2001 ; Chafe , 1976 , 1994 ; Givón , 1983 !”