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Stepping back to look ahead: neuter encapsulation and referent extension in counter-argumentative and causal relations in Spanish

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GIOVANNI PARODI Open the ORCID record for GIOVANNI PARODI [Opens in a new window] ,
CRISTOBAL JULIO ,
LAURA NADAL ,
ADRIANA CRUZ  and
GINA BURDILES
GIOVANNI PARODI
Affiliation:
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
CRISTOBAL JULIO
Affiliation:
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
LAURA NADAL
Affiliation:
EAN University
ADRIANA CRUZ
Affiliation:
Heidelberg University
GINA BURDILES
Affiliation:
Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción
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Abstract

In discourse comprehension, if all goes well, people tend to create a rich and coherent mental representation of the events described in the text. To do so, referential and relational coherence must be established in order to construct a connected discourse. The objective of this follow-up eye-tracking study (N = 72) is to explore the existence of an interaction effect between two factors: (a) the extension of the referent (short and long antecedent), and (b) the semantic relation (counter-argumentative a pesar de, and causal por), when processing the neuter pronoun ello in texts written in Spanish. No previous study has systematically compared the on-line processing of texts in which different extensions of the encapsulated anaphoric antecedent by the neuter pronoun ello (‘this’ or ‘it’ in English) are presented in diverse marked semantic relations (causal and counter-argumentative). Based on three eye-tracking measures, we found distinctive patterns of reading behavior when anaphoric neuter reference and semantic relations must be processed conjointly in order to construct a coherent mental representation. The main findings show that reading longer and more complex antecedents encapsulated by the neutral pronouns ello exerts more cognitive effort in late processing (Look Back measure), particularly when simultaneously and in the same discourse construction there is an explicitly marked counter-argumentative semantic relation. Implications for theories of referential and relational coherence are discussed.

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cause-effect relationcounter-argumentative relationencapsulationneuter pronoun elloeye-tracking
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Language and Cognition , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , September 2019 , pp. 431 - 454
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Copyright © UK Cognitive Linguistics Association 2019 

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We are extremely grateful to Dr Alonso Ortega for providing expert assistance in methodology and statistics for this paper. We are also grateful to Language and Cognition’s reviewers and editor for particularly useful comments, which have helped improve the paper. This research was funded by FONDECYT N° 1170623 (National Commission of Scientific Research and Technology).

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