The finding that people read more slowly when they encounter a name anaphor in a text demonstrates __________.
A)anaphoric cuing
B)antecedent processing cost
C)repeated name penalty
D)reduced semantic implicature

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The phenomenon where people read more slowly when they encounter a name anaphor (a subsequent mention of a previously introduced entity by its name rather than a pronoun) is known as the repeated name penalty. This reflects the cognitive cost of processing the explicit mention of a name that has already been introduced, as opposed to a more streamlined processing of a pronoun referring back to the same entity.

The Finding That People Read More Slowly When They Encounter