The definiteness hierarchy and strength of anaphoric link in Polish
The definiteness hierarchy and strength of anaphoric link in Polish

Summary/Abstract: In a psyeholinguistic experiment designed to test the psychological reality of the paragraph, Koen et al. [1969] established that, some signals for paragraph organization are formal, rather than semantic. Following these authors general approach, Coleman [1982] conducted an experiment to test the effect of the noun- -pronoun alternation on paragraphing. The experiment demonstrated that, in English, 'a pronominal reference has the effect of establishing a stronger anaphoric "link" to an earlier coreferential NP than does a full nominal reference’ [Coleman, 1982: 450]. Coleman attributed this effect to the greater definiteness of the full noun phrase anaphor.

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