Schedule 73. StuTS

In research on anaphora resolution researchers usually assume the gender of their stimuli. Men are male, fathers are male, surgeons are male, and Phillips are male -- Are all Alex male? There is no research on ambiguous names and referential failure effects (cf. Examples 1 - 3) and my Bachelor thesis tried to close this gap and show that some stimuli in some research is critical.

I will present a brief overview of Anaphora Resolution, Gender, and the mental lexicon of Names; sketch out the three experiments I have conducted for my thesis; and present novel findings on how gender incongruency(?) affects reading.

1 Phillip<\b> guckt aus dem Fenster. Er/Sie<\b> hat einen guten Freund gesehen.
2 Anna<\b> guckt aus dem Fenster. Er<\b>/Sie hat einen guten Freund gesehen.
3 Alex<\b> guckt aus dem Fenster. Er/Sie hat einen guten Freund gesehen.
(Philipp/Anna/Alex looks out of the window. He/She has seen a good friend.)