The pragmatics of characters’ mental perspectives in pronominal reference resolution
Tiana V. Simovic, Craig G. Chambers · 2023
To date, cognitive models of pronoun resolution have primarily focused on how fairly shallow discourse-level and lexical cues yield the appropriate interpretation, despite classic work in computational linguistics emphasizing the importance of situation-specific pragmatic reasoning.We explore the latter in two studies of human judgments, which highlight the striking robustness of these pragmatic processes.