The role of subordinating conjunctions in the interpretation of null and overt subject pronouns in native Peninsular Spanish.
Subject pronoun interpretation in native Spanish has generally been approached under the Position of Antecedent Strategy, a parsing strategy which claims that null pronouns bias toward subject antecedents and overt pronouns toward object antecedents. While some studies align with the predicted patte...
| Publicado en: | Applied Psycholinguistics Vol. 46; pp. 1 - 28 |
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Cambridge University Press
2025
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