cataphor
An anaphor might be understood using information from earlier in the text.
In this sentence the child replaced the object with an anaphor.
An anaphor can be a word, phrase or ellipsis, for example the verbal ellipsis in "Maria likes coffee, and Anna, tea."

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affricate
allophone
allophony
anaphora
contextualize
emphatic
entailment
etymological
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etymologist
idiomatic
inflected language
philological
philologically
polysemy
portmanteau word
prescriptivism
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Examples of anaphor

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However, it is also possible that repeated anaphors have different resolution effects depending on a reader's age and stage of reading development.
When referential distance increases, nominal anaphors become more appropriate than pronominal anaphors for referring back.
Such strategies should also enable students to enrich their vocabularies over time, especially in the case of synonymy and paraphrase anaphors.
Indeed, it is the non-obligatory nature of anaphors which makes observing (and quantifying) their mastery most difficult.
Empirical support for this claim comes from the distribution of idiom chunks and from reconstruction effects in relative clauses containing anaphors and bound pronouns.
A cascaded method for anaphor and pronoun generation is proposed for handling pro-drop and discourse constraints on pronominalization.
This contrasts with pronouns (which must be free in their governing category) and anaphors (which must be bound in their governing category).
By contrast, (3b) shows that an element scrambled long distance cannot serve as the antecedent of a lexical anaphor.
The findings showed that students who were not performing well academically were not skilled at resolving anaphors.
Consequently, a pronominal anaphor becomes the most appropriate marker for thematic continuity.
This is indicated by the anaphor his, which refers back to man, not to man's shirt.
Three factors in particular have been shown to influence anaphoric resolution: ease of antecedent identifiability, topic continuity/discourse focus, and distance between anaphor and antecedent.
The culprit appears to be the morphological distinction of anaphors and pronouns.
The categories noun-verb and anaphor- verb are the most complex and informative.
However, it does refer, as is evident from the subsequent anaphor his which refers back to the dependent (a testator).
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