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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cognition. 1989 Jul;32(2):99–156. doi: 10.1016/0010-0277(89)90001-2

Table 5.

Three discourse properties and their relations with anaphoric explicitness and referential accessibility

Referential distance
Relation between referential distance and anaphoric explicitness:
  At longer distances, anaphors are more explicit
Relation between referential distance and referential accessibility:
  At longer distances, antecedents are less accessible
Topicality
Relation between topicality and anaphoric explicitness:
  For more topical concepts, anaphors are less explicit
Relation between topicality and referential accessibility:
  For more topical concepts, antecedents are more accessible
Episode structure
Relation between episode structure and anaphoric explicitness:
  At the beginnings of episodes, anaphors are more explicit
Relation between episode structure and referential accessibility:
  At the beginnings of episodes, antecedents are less accessible