Repeated-name and pronoun have been investigated for their referring functions. Reviewing the literature led to the hypothesis that these two types of anaphor might differ in their units of activation. Experiment 1 examined recognition latencies for referents and related words referred by repeated-name or pronoun. Participants recognized referents in both repeated-name and pronoun conditions faster than control condition which had no reference. However, for related words, facilitation was observed in only pronoun condition. This indicated that pronoun and repeated-name activated different units of linguistic representation. Experiment 2 replicated Experiment 1 except that an additional sentence was placed between antecedent and anaphoric sentences. This change affected the patterns of results. Pronoun had no effect on recognition for referents and related words. On the other hand, repeated-name facilitated recognition for their referents, but inhibited for the related words. These patterns were interpreted on the basis of differential functions in which repeated-name helps the integration of text with thematic shift, whereas pronoun contributes to immediate integration in theme-continuous situation.
