a word or phrase used to refer back to a previous word or phrase
another name for anaphora
Examples of 'anaphor' in a sentence
anaphor
Empirical support for the new proposal comes from anaphor deletion facts and coordination facts.
Zoerner, Ed 1996, 'English Verb-particle Constructions: Two Types, Two Structures', Kansas Working Papers in Linguisticshttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/460. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The fourth type, a null anaphor, occurs in non-argument endu-clauses.
Sudharsan, Anuradha 2017, 'Pronominal vs. anaphoric pro in Kannada', Kansas Working Papers in Linguisticshttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/26657. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Surprisingly, the number of potential referents led to a decrease in anaphor reading times.
Kevin S. Autry, William H. Levine 2014, 'A fan effect in anaphor processing: Effects of multiple distractors', Frontiers in Psychologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00818/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Word order of the antecedents and parallelism by the grammatical role of the anaphor was modified in the study.
Antje Sauermann, Natalia Gagarina 2017, 'Grammatical Role Parallelism Influences Ambiguous Pronoun Resolution in German', Frontiers in Psychologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01205/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Research suggests that the presence of a non-referent from the same category as the referent interferes with anaphor resolution.
Kevin S. Autry, William H. Levine 2014, 'A fan effect in anaphor processing: Effects of multiple distractors', Frontiers in Psychologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00818/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This reduced interference in turn leads to a diminished locality bias effect for the morphologically complex anaphor ta-ziji.
Brian eDillon, Wing-Yee eChow, Ming eXiang 2016, 'The relationship between anaphor features and antecedent retrieval: Comparing Mandarinziji and ta-ziji', Frontiers in Psychologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01966/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)