Demonstrative pronouns and personal pronouns behave differently in
terms of the antecedent they prefer. Is that the only difference
between them? We report a large-sample self-paced reading study which
shows that German demonstrative pronouns are bound differently than
personal pronouns. Our results suggest that although demonstrative
pronouns can be bound, they are possibly bound by a mechanism that is
different from that of personal pronouns. We also motivate an
extension of a cue-based retrieval model of antecedent retrieval to
capture this data.