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Researchers manually coded 9750 SPP instances from sociolinguistic interviews and administered standardized tests of morphosyntax, lexicon, inhibition, working memory (WM), and attention. The investigation had two aims: (1) to replicate prior findings on SPP constraints and (2) to evaluate the contributions of linguistic and EF abilities to third-person pronoun expression. Mixed-effects binary logistic regressions confirmed three common constraints on SPP use: the first-person singular, the imperfect tense, and switch-reference contexts, replicating previous studies\u2019 results. Although initial correlations linked EF measures to SPP expression, multiple regression analyses revealed that morphosyntactic abilities accounted for the unique variance in pronoun expression. 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