Evaluate the collective function of references cited together in a given text segment.
Classify their combined role into one of the following categories: 'method', 'background', or 'result'.

Text:…Gentner, 2005; Cardillo, Watson, Schmidt, Kranjec, & Chatterjee, 2012; Chettih, Durgin, & Grodner, 2012; Chiappe & Kennedy, 1999; Chiappe et al., 2003; Citron & Goldberg, 2014; Damerall & Kellogg, 2016; Jones & Estes, 2005, 2006; Keysar, Shen, Glucksberg, & Horton, 2000; Thibodeau & Durgin, 2008).
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