Abstract
Three experiments investigated the influence of a context sentence on the processing of a subsequent sentence. Experiments 1 and 2 demonstrated that clauses with pronoun subjects functioned as processing units only when preceded by a context sentence that established a referent for the pronoun. Experiment 3 suggested that listeners make inferences which link definite noun phrases to a preceding context as soon as the definite noun phrase is encountered. The result suggests that context can affect within‐sentence processes in comprehension.
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