Abstract
The general purpose of this study is to evaluate the locus and time-course of anaphoric resolution conceived as a psycholinguistic process in on-line reading. As such the anaphoric relation can be interpreted either as an occurrent link constructed at reading time, or as the activation of a previously memorized association. An experimental analysis of on-line sentence comprehension processes during reading is reported, using an infra-red eye-tracking recording. The experimental sentences included an antecedent as subject noun and an anaphoric expression as object noun at the end of the sentence, instanciating associative anaphors. Besides these controlled syntactical parameters, the semantic variable holding the anaphoric relation is the predictability of the anaphoric expression from the context (mainly the antecedent) through associative strength. The results indicate that associative anaphora resolution can be interpreted, in this case, as forward associative inferences induced by contextual constraints during reading. It is then possible to suggest a psycholinguistic interpretation of both Charolles' cognitive-discursive (data-driven) and Kleiber's ‘lexico-stereotypic’ (concept-driven) hypotheses. These two linguistic hypotheses can correspond, psychologically speaking, to the two main types of cognitive processes involved during reading.
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