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Referential Choices in a Collaborative Storytelling Task: Discourse Stages and Referential Complexity Matter

Fossard, Marion ; Achim, Amélie M. ; Rousier-Vercruyssen, Lucie ; Gonzalez, Sylvia ; Bureau, Alexandre ; Champagne-Lavau, Maud

In: Frontiers in Psychology, 2018, vol. 9, no. 176, p. 1-18

During a narrative discourse, accessibility of the referents is rarely fixed once and for all. Rather, each referent varies in accessibility as the discourse unfolds, depending on the presence and prominence of the other referents. This leads the speaker to use various referential expressions to refer to the main protagonists of the story at different moments in the narrative. This study relies...