La encapsulación y la correferencia en español mediante pronombres demostrativos y repeticiones léxicas: Una aproximación experimental con eye-tracking

Óscar Loureda; Dámaso Izquierdo Alegría; Carlos Gelormini-Lezama; Celia Hernández Pérez; Mathis Teucher; Adriana Cruz Rubio; Cristóbal Julio Vergara

Encapsulation and Co-Reference in Spanish Using Demonstrative Pronouns and Lexical Repetitions

An Experimental Approach with Eye-Tracking

Authors

Óscar Loureda Heidelberg University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7475-6324
Dámaso Izquierdo Alegría ICS, University of Navarra https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8167-7333
Carlos Gelormini-Lezama University of San Andrés https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1605-229X
Celia Hernández Pérez Heidelberg University https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8820-3231
Mathis Teucher Heidelberg University https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4729-0688
Adriana Cruz Rubio Heidelberg University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2796-8981
Cristóbal Julio Vergara Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4723-0271

Keywords:

encapsulation, co-reference, deverbal nominalization, demonstrative pronoun, experimental pragmatics, eye-tracking, discourse connectedness

Abstract

Anaphoric encapsulators are referential expressions which, as they compress textual segments of predicative nature, are expected to present different and more complex processing patterns than those of co-referential expressions, since, for their interpretation, it is necessary to recover an explicature. However, references to encapsulation processing are still scarce and there are hardly any experimental studies that offer data on this subject. In this paper the results of an eye-tracking experiment comparing the processing efforts of two types of non-(re)categorizing encapsulators (neutral demonstrative pronoun and deverbal nominalizations) with analogous co-referential mechanisms (co-referential demonstrative pronoun and lexical repetition) are analyzed. The results concern two variables: encapsulation vs. co-reference and pronominal vs. lexical referential expression (repetition).

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2024-04-10

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Loureda, Óscar, Izquierdo Alegría, D., Gelormini-Lezama, C., Hernández Pérez, C., Teucher, M., Cruz Rubio, A., & Julio Vergara, C. (2024). Encapsulation and Co-Reference in Spanish Using Demonstrative Pronouns and Lexical Repetitions: An Experimental Approach with Eye-Tracking. Revista Signos. Estudios De Lingüística, 57(114). Retrieved from https://revistasignos.cl/index.php/signos/article/view/1164

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Vol. 57 No. 114 (2024): Marzo

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