0 Reflexive words show that the person who does the action is also the person who is affected by it:
1 done because of a physical reaction that you cannot control:
2 showing that the action of the verb is directed back on the subject:
Half the items used reflexives and half used personal pronouns.
The issue at hand is the acquisition of reflexives.
With these two constraints alone, reflexives are predicted to be correctly understood and produced, yet pronouns are only predicted to be correctly produced.
Pronouns and reflexives were interpreted equally well in this condition, at the high level at which reflexives are interpreted in other conditions.
Processing of reflexives, where the interpretation is obtained within the clause via syntactic mechanisms alone, is less costly than that of referentially ambiguous pronouns.
On average, the reflexives, himself and herself, were approximately three times as long as the pronouns, him and her (330 ms vs. 100 ms).
We make use of the binding theory for reflexives.
Then why do we need to distinguish between local coargument reflexives and m-reflexives if both of them are associated with syntactic binding ?