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In this project, we investigated the role of information structure (via prosody), grammatical role, and order of mention for subject pronouns *er* (personal pronoun) and *der* (demonstrative pronoun) in German L1. The first experiment includes online data (eye tracking) and offline data (referent selection) for the pronoun *er*. The conditions in this experiment are prosody (subject focus vs object focus), word order (SVO vs OVS), and grammatical role (subject vs object). The second experiment includes offline data (referent selection) for pronouns *er* and *der*. The conditions are prosody (subject focus vs object focus) and grammatical role (subject vs object). Participants were listening to dialogues containing ambiguous subject pronouns (*er* in experiment 1, *er* and *der* in experiment 2) and answered a question after each dialogue about who they thought the pronoun referred to. The context preceding the pronoun was manipulated with regards to their information structure: 1. prosodic subject focus was preceded by a subject referent question, e.g. *Und wer hat den Koch angerufen? **Der Schauspieler** hat den Koch angerufen.* 2. prosodic object focus was preceded by an object referent question, e.g. *Und wen hat der Schauspieler angerufen? **Den Koch** hat der Schauspieler angerufen.* Gaze data was preprocessed using [VWPre][1]. It was analyzed using GAMM (R packages: [mgcv][2] and [itsadug][3]). Two time windows were analyzed separately: 1. prosody manipulation 2. ambiguous pronoun [1]: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/VWPre/index.html [2]: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/mgcv/index.html [3]: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/itsadug/index.html
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