Wallace L Chafe’s scientific contributions

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Givenness. Contrastiveness, Definiteness, Subjects, Topics and Point of View
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January 1976

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... Discourse entities which are topics are often realized in subject position (Reinhart, 1981) and, in languages like English, it is well-established that entities appearing in subject position such as Jamie in (1) are more likely to be considered as the antecedent for an ambiguous (subject) pronoun such as he as compared to the entity in object position (Roy) (e.g., Arnold et al., 2000;Brennan, 1995;Chafe, 1976;Crawley et al., 1990;Stevenson et al., 1994). ...

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Examining how topicality impacts pronoun resolution in second language processing
Givenness. Contrastiveness, Definiteness, Subjects, Topics and Point of View
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  • January 1976