• Suzanne Belanger. 2004. Processing of Deep and Surface Anaphors - A Replication and Extension of Tanenhaus, Carlson & Seidenberg (1985). Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 22: 1-40. (.pdf)
• Woodbury, Rebecca. 2011. Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Deep and Surface Anaphora. Doctoral disseration, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology Program), MIT. (.pdf)

Background Readings

• Hankamer, Jorge, and Ivan Sag. 1976. Deep and Surface Anaphora. Linguistic Inquiry 7: 391-428. [Reprinted in Asa Kasher, ed. (1998), Pragmatics -- Critical Concepts, Volume III. London and New York: Routledge. Pp. 76--117.] (.pdf)
• Sag, Ivan A., and Jorge Hankamer. 1984. Toward a Theory of Anaphoric Processing. Linguistics and Philosophy 7: 325--345. [Reprinted in Asa Kasher, ed. (1998), Pragmatics -- Critical Concepts, Volume III. London and New York: Routledge. Pp. 118--138.] (.pdf)
• Murphy, G. 1985a. Processes of Understanding Anaphora. Journal of Memory and Language 24: 290-303.
• Murphy, G. 1985b. Psychological Explanations of Deep and Surface Anaphora. Journal of Pragmatics 9: 171-198.
• Tanenhaus, Michael, and Gregory Carlson. 1990. Comprehension of Deep and Surface Verb Phrase Anaphors. Language and Cognitive Processes 5:4, 257-280. (.pdf)
• Ward, Gregory, Richard Sproat, and Gail McKoon. 1991. A Pragmatic Analysis of So-Called Anaphoric Islands. Language 67:439-474. [Just look at section 3.3] (.pdf)

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