Squib: co-reference and adult language comprehension

There exists a large, rich and varied literature on the processing of pronouns and other anaphoric forms in the adult language comprehension literature. Rather than trying to review it all, an impossible task in a small space, certain findings will be discussed that are particularly informative either because they place strong constraints on the processing of co-reference and more generally on anaphora or because they pose problems or challenges for an adequate theory of anaphora processing.

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