cataphor
noun[C]
languagespecializeduk/ˈkæt.əˌfɔːr/us/ˈkæt̬.əˌfɔːr/a word that refers to a word usedlaterin atextandreplacesit, forexample"he" in thesentence"When hesawme, Joesmiled.":
指后照应词（内容由下文加以说明）In thefollowingsentence, thepronoun"she" (the cataphor)appearsearlierthan thenoun"Kate" that it refers to.在下面的句子中，代词“she（她）”这个指后照应词出现在它所代指的名词“Kate（凯特）”之前。
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anaphor
- Themeaningof the cataphor isdeterminedorspecifiedby thelaterexpression.
- Inlanguageprocessing, itappearsthat the samemechanismservesacentralregulatoryfunctioninprocessinganaphors, cataphors, andmetaphors.
- Cataphors areambiguouswordssignallingatermthatshowsuplaterin thetext.
- Some researchersproposethat cataphorstriggeranactivesearchduringincrementalprocessing.
Linguistic terms & linguistic style
- affricate
- allophone
- allophony
- anaphor
- anaphora
- chatty
- colloquial
- double entendre
- downtoner
- emphatic
- entailment
- etymological
- etymologically
- flowery
- oxymoron
- philological
- polysemy
- portmanteau word
- prescriptivism
- prescriptivist