One of a kind. The processing of indefinite one-anaphora in spoken Danish Diderichsen, Philip

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One of a kind. The processing of indefinite one-anaphora in spoken Danish
Diderichsen, Philip
2008
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Diderichsen, P. (2008). One of a kind. The processing of indefinite one-anaphora in spoken Danish. [Doctoral
Thesis (monograph), Cognitive Science]. Cognitive Science.
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LUND UNIVERSITY
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ONE OF A KIND

ONE OF A KIND
The processing of indefinite one-anaphora
in spoken Danish
Philip Diderichsen
Lund University Cognitive Studies 138
Oneofakind. Theprocessingofindefiniteone-anaphorainspoken
Danish
PhilipDiderichsen
(cid:13)c 2008,LundUniversityCognitiveStudiesandtheauthor
Cover illustration: Between Many and The One by Krishna
Reddy. Used with kind permission of the ArtsIndia West
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LundUniversityCognitiveStudies138
Toallmylovedones

Contents
Contents vii
Foreword ix
1 Introduction 1
2 GivennessandreferringexpressionsinDanish 7
2.1 Givennessandreferringexpressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.2 Indefiniteone-anaphorsinDanish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.3 Anewviewofgivennessmarking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
3 Identifiabilityandanaphorice´ninspokendialogue 43
3.1 Accessibilityandpronominalexpressions . . . . . . . . . . . 48
3.2 Identifiabilityandpronominalexpressions . . . . . . . . . . 62
3.3 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
4 Referentialprocessingandthevisualworld 83
4.1 Referentialprocessing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
4.2 Thehistoryofthevisualworldparadigm . . . . . . . . . . . 95
4.3 Analysisofvisualworlddata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
5 Theprocessingofgivennessmarkinginthevisualworld 123
5.1 Eliminatingaccenting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
5.2 Definitenessandpronominalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
5.3 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
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6 Accessibilityandanaphorice´ninvisualworlddialogue 155
6.1 Givennessandindefiniteexpressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
6.2 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
7 Theoretical,methodological,andappliedperspectives 175
7.1 Empiricalfindings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
7.2 Methodologicalaspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
7.3 Possibleapplications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
8 Conclusion 191
References 195
Foreword
What you presently hold in your hands, dear reader, is not a book. I have
had fun trying to make it look like one, but it is not. It is a Ph.D. thesis,
andassuchithasbeencompletedoverthelastfewweeksundertheslogan
of “an anonymous, but very experienced supervisor” at Lund University
Cognitive Science: “Ph.D. theses should not be perfect, they should be
done.” ItappearsIhavesucceededinachievingbothdesiderata.
Many people have been generous to me with their help, support, and
encouragement while I have been working on the thesis, and I am very
gratefulforit. IhavegenerallyfoundthepeopleIhavemetinSka˚netobe
soextraordinarilykindandconsideratethatIalmostwishIhadbeenborn
a Swede. Well, Ska˚ne is more Danish than Swedish anyway, so it figures.1
Iwouldespeciallyliketothankthefollowinglonglistofpeople.
Richard Andersson, Lenisa Branda˜o, Nils Holmberg, Marcus Nystro¨m,
Roger Johansson, Jaana Simola, and Janna Spanne from the eye-tracking
group at Lund University’s Humanities Lab for tirelessly commenting on
my texts, often the same one many times over, and for great companion-
shipandlotsofgood,cleanfunondiversetripsandconferences.
My supervisors Kenneth Holmqvist and Jana Holsanova, for your su-
pervision and guidance, for doing the parent thing when the thesis made
me behave like a frustrated 4-year-old, for all the enjoyable social gath-
erings, work-related and otherwise, and for your generous hospitality on
manyoccasions.
1 Kungshuset(‘TheKing’sHouse’)containingLundUniversityCognitiveScienceasa
partoftheDepartmentofPhilosophy,aswellasLund’smagnificentcathedraljustacross
fromit,werebuiltbyDanishkings.
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