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advantage of first mention: a standalone construct

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Psycholinguistics

finding that participants mentioned first in a sentence are more accessible later than participants mentioned second, regardless of their grammatical role.

In psycholinguistics, advantage of first mention refers to finding that participants mentioned first in a sentence are more accessible later than participants mentioned second, regardless of their grammatical role. This meaning comes from Gernsbacher (1988) in Journal of Memory and Language.[1]

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References

Gernsbacher, M. A., & Hargreaves, D. J. (1988). Accessing sentence participants: The advantage of first mention. Journal of Memory and Language, 27(6), 699-717. https://doi.org/10.1016/0749-596x(88)90016-2

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