TAKEI Mitsuko    Department   Hiroshima shudo University  The Faculty of Global and Community Studies    Position   Professor
Date	2014/09
Presentation Theme	When do you use pronouns?: An entity coherence approach
Conference	47th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (Learning. Working and Communicating in a Global Context)
Conference Type	International
Presentation Type	Poster
Contribution Type	Collaborative
Venue	Coventry, UK
Publisher and common publisher	Mitsuko Yamura-Takei & Etsuko Yoshida
Details	This presentation attempts to explicate entity coherence of discourse and its effect on pronominalization in the framework of Centering Theory (Grosz, Joshi and Weinstein 1995). We conducted a survey with native speakers (NS) of English and Japanese and examined in the survey result, (1) how centering prediction is reflected in human intuitive judgments on pronominalization and (2) how NS judgments differ across the languages. The result showed that decisions on pronominalization are reasonably compatible with centering predictions.