Titlebook: Negation and Polarity: Experimental Perspectives; Pierre Larrivée,Chungmin Lee Book 2016 Springer International Publishing Switzerland 201

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When Negatives Are Easier to Understand Than Affirmatives: The Case of Negative Sarcasmen ., and even when .. Their affirmative alternatives (.; ./.) are interpreted literally and rated as literal. In strongly supportive contexts, the negative constructions are processed faster when biased toward their nonsalient sarcastic interpretation than toward their equally strongly biased liter

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An Experimental Study of Neg-Raising Inferences in Koreanhe study is upon the class of Neg-Raising predicates and the presence of an auxiliary, context-dependent presupposition in understanding Neg-Raising inferences in Korean. To this end, a set of experiments were designed and conducted to examine how native speakers of Korean perceive a class of Neg-Ra

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Another Look at NPIs in Definite Descriptions: An Experimental Approach literature and the discussion of data has been contradictory. The goal of this paper is to review existing approaches to licensing and to offer additional data points to the debate. This paper reports two experiments. The first is a pen and paper judgment survey conducted in a large undergraduate c

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Input Versus Output in the Acquisition of Negative Polarity: The Curious Case of , and, against the backdrop of existing theoretical proposals about licensing, identifies a fundamental learning puzzle. We will begin with an overview of the methods that have been used to tap into normally-developing English-speaking children’s knowledge of NPI .; such methods have revealed evidenc

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The Significance of Formal Features in Language Change Theory and the Evolution of Minimizersature [uNeg]. Particularly, it shows that historically minimizers can either become Polarity Items or Emphatic Polarity Particles (with metalinguistic content) depending on their having an uninterpretable formal feature [uNeg] or not. On the other hand, it points out three different ways of fixing t