Differences between stereotypical gender and definitional gender in pronominal antecedent retrieval in Brazilian Portuguese
This paper is the second of a research work aimed at investigating the role of gender cues in pronominal antecedent retrieval in Brazilian Portuguese. It was examined how antecedent candidates carrying stereotypical gender and definitional gender are perceived by memory in pronoun resolution. The r...
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This paper is the second of a research work aimed at investigating the role of gender cues in pronominal antecedent retrieval in Brazilian Portuguese. It was examined how antecedent candidates carrying stereotypical gender and definitional gender are perceived by memory in pronoun resolution. The results of two eye-tracking experiments conducted with native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese showed that gender morphological cues play a role at the very beginning of pronoun resolution processing, and only at a later processing phase, structural constraints of Principle B seemed to help the parser to select the correct antecedent. Like the previous work, the results indicated Principle B does not work as an initial filter blocking structurally unacceptable candidates in Brazilian Portuguese; on the contrary, all candidates seemed to be taken into account despite of violating Principle B. Similarly to the previous work, masculine antecedent candidates were preferable to be retrieved by memory in comparison to feminine candidates. And this time the results provided evidence that antecedent candidates with definitional gender rather than stereotypical gender are preferable to be retrieved by memory since the former is lexically specified, while the latter relies on probabilities based on world knowledge inferences.
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| spelling | doaj.art-8aa2eebcb15349bbbab26b395cf1ff4d2024-02-02T08:35:08ZengCentro de Estudos Humanísticos da Universidade do MinhoDiacrítica0870-89672183-91742022-06-0136110.21814/diacritica.746Differences between stereotypical gender and definitional gender in pronominal antecedent retrieval in Brazilian PortugueseMichele Calil dos Santos Alves This paper is the second of a research work aimed at investigating the role of gender cues in pronominal antecedent retrieval in Brazilian Portuguese. It was examined how antecedent candidates carrying stereotypical gender and definitional gender are perceived by memory in pronoun resolution. The results of two eye-tracking experiments conducted with native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese showed that gender morphological cues play a role at the very beginning of pronoun resolution processing, and only at a later processing phase, structural constraints of Principle B seemed to help the parser to select the correct antecedent. Like the previous work, the results indicated Principle B does not work as an initial filter blocking structurally unacceptable candidates in Brazilian Portuguese; on the contrary, all candidates seemed to be taken into account despite of violating Principle B. Similarly to the previous work, masculine antecedent candidates were preferable to be retrieved by memory in comparison to feminine candidates. And this time the results provided evidence that antecedent candidates with definitional gender rather than stereotypical gender are preferable to be retrieved by memory since the former is lexically specified, while the latter relies on probabilities based on world knowledge inferences. http://diacritica.ilch.uminho.pt/index.php/dia/article/view/746Pronoun resolutionGender cuesMemory retrievalBrazilian Portuguese |
| spellingShingle | Michele Calil dos Santos Alves Differences between stereotypical gender and definitional gender in pronominal antecedent retrieval in Brazilian Portuguese Diacrítica Pronoun resolution Gender cues Memory retrieval Brazilian Portuguese |
| title | Differences between stereotypical gender and definitional gender in pronominal antecedent retrieval in Brazilian Portuguese |
| title_full | Differences between stereotypical gender and definitional gender in pronominal antecedent retrieval in Brazilian Portuguese |
| title_fullStr | Differences between stereotypical gender and definitional gender in pronominal antecedent retrieval in Brazilian Portuguese |
| title_full_unstemmed | Differences between stereotypical gender and definitional gender in pronominal antecedent retrieval in Brazilian Portuguese |
| title_short | Differences between stereotypical gender and definitional gender in pronominal antecedent retrieval in Brazilian Portuguese |
| title_sort | differences between stereotypical gender and definitional gender in pronominal antecedent retrieval in brazilian portuguese |
| topic | Pronoun resolution Gender cues Memory retrieval Brazilian Portuguese |
| url | http://diacritica.ilch.uminho.pt/index.php/dia/article/view/746 |
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