Mayol, LaiaBarberà, Gemma2023-01-242023-01-242018Mayol L, Barberà G. Anaphoric strategies across language modalities: a comparison between Catalan and Catalan Sign Language (LSC). J Psycholinguist Res. 2018;47(2):431-47. DOI: 10.1007/s10936-017-9540-90090-6905http://hdl.handle.net/10230/55391Un erratum d'aquest article s'ha publicat a Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022;51(3):235-6. DOI: 10.1007/s10936-021-09811-1 i també està disponible a http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56222The goal of this paper is to compare the different anaphoric strategies that Catalan and Catalan Sign Language (LSC) use by means of a parallel corpus. In particular, our comparison is focused in an examination of the uses of overt subject pronouns in Catalan and how these uses are rendered in a language that exploits the visual-manual modality, such as LSC. As far as we know, this is one of the first studies to compare reference-tracking devices in a spoken and a signed language by means of a parallel corpus and incorporating both a descriptive and a theoretical perspective. All instances of overt pronouns in Catalan were analyzed and most of the data can be accounted with three factors: topic change, focus and contrast. As for LSC, the use of pronouns is rare and only few instances were found. Instead, other anaphoric strategies are used: while topic change and focus are primarily encoded with bare nouns, the expression of contrast relies on modality-specific features.application/pdfeng© The Author(s) 2017, corrected publication 2021. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-017-9540-9AnaphoraCatalanCatalan Sign Language (LSC)Overt pronounsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess