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This thesis focuses on the issue of how language users refer to an entity during discourse production, by investigating representations and processes that underlie the choice between pronouns and repeated noun phrases. Past research has shown that the use of pronouns (relative t…

This dissertation investigates the factors involved in producing agreement, using evidence from conjoined subjects in English and Lebanese Arabic. Specifically, the goal was to test psycholinguistic and syntactic theories of agreement by examining the relative contributions of l…