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21.5 Consider the following passage, from Brennan et al. (1987):

(21.99) Brennan drives an Alfa Romeo.

She drives too fast.

Friedman races her on weekends.

She goes to Laguna Seca.

Identify the referent that the BFP algorithm finds for the pronoun in the final sentence. Do you agree with this choice, or do you find the example ambiguous? Discuss why

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introducing a new noun phrase in subject position, with a pronominalized reference in object position, might lead to an ambiguity for a subject pronoun in the next sentence. What preferences are competing here?

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