caa a22 4500 475788427 CHVBK 20180406123705.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/PL00008164 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/PL00008164 Jescheniak Jörg D. Max-Planck-Institut für neuropsychologische Forschung, Postfach 500355, D-04303 Leipzig, Germany e-mail: jeschen@cns.mpg.de Tel.: +49 (0)341-9940276; Fax: +49 (0)341-9940113, DE aut The cataphoric use of spoken stress in narratives [Elektronische Daten] [Jörg D. Jescheniak] This study investigated the effects of introducing a concept into discourse either marked with spoken stress or in an unstressed form using a story continuation paradigm. Participants first listened to informal narratives and then continued them. The final phrase of the narratives introduced a new concept. If that concept had been introduced in a stressed form, participants referred to it more often and sooner. Also, there was a tendency towards using a higher proportion of pronominal references as opposed to NP references. These results closely resemble the findings of Gernsbacher and Shroyer, who, using the same experimental procedure, investigated the effect of marking a concept with the unstressed, indefinite article this as opposed to a/an. The two studies together support the notion of a common cataphoric function of the two linguistic devices; they mark concepts the speaker is likely to refer to again. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2000 https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00008164 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00008164 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Jescheniak Jörg D. Max-Planck-Institut für neuropsychologische Forschung, Postfach 500355, D-04303 Leipzig, Germany e-mail: jeschen@cns.mpg.de Tel.: +49 (0)341-9940276; Fax: +49 (0)341-9940113, DE aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer