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(Negative) Polarity Items in Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance Languages

Languages, 2022
This paper identifies the set of properties that polarity items (PI), negative polarity items (NPI) and negative concord items (NCI) satisfy in Catalan, Aragonese, Benasquese and Occitan. It shows that in Catalan, gaire ‘much, many’ is a PI, pas ‘at all’
M.Teresa Espinal, Ares Llop
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The polarity asymmetry of negative strengthening: dissociating adjectival polarity from facethreatening potential

Glossa, 2021
The interpretation of negated antonyms is characterised by a polarity asymmetry: the negation of a positive polarity antonym (X is not interesting) is more likely to be strengthened to convey its opposite (‘X is uninteresting’) than the negation of a ...
Diana Mazzarella, Nicole Gotzner
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Establishing the limits between polarity sensitivity, negative polarity and negative concord

Linguistic Typology
In this paper, by focussing on the behaviour of polarity elements from a variety of languages from different language families (namely, Basque, Hindi, English, Romanian, Spanish, Greek, Czech, and Russian) we investigate the relationship between polarity
Etxeberria Urtzi, Espinal M.Teresa, Tubau Susagna   +2 more
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The Effect of Ambient Illumination and Text Color on Visual Fatigue under Negative Polarity [PDF]

Sensors
This study investigates the effects of ambient illumination and negatively polarized text color on visual fatigue, exploring the issue of visual fatigue when using visual display terminals in low-illumination environments.
Qiangqiang Fan, Jinhan Xie, Zhaoyang Dong, Yang Wang   +3 more
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Measuring the cognitive cost of downward monotonicity by controlling for negative polarity

Glossa, 2019
Our goal in this study was to behaviorally characterize the property (or properties) that render negative quantifiers more complex in processing compared to their positive counterparts (e.g. the pair few/many).
Galit Agmon, Yonatan Loewenstein, Yosef Grodzinsky   +2 more
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Negative Polarity Items in Telugu

Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2019
The paper presents a unified account of licensing conditions of Negative Polarity Items (NPI) in Telugu. Based on the distribution of NPIs in complex clauses, we state that negation c-commanding NPI at the base-generated. Consequently, features checking
Mayuri J. DILIP, Rajesh KUMAR
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Neuronal Polarity: Positive and Negative Feedback Signals

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2019
Establishment and maintenance of neuronal polarity are critical for neuronal development and function. One of the fundamental questions in neurodevelopment is how neurons generate only one axon and several dendrites from multiple minor neurites. Over the
Tetsuya Takano, Tetsuya Takano, Yasuhiro Funahashi, Kozo Kaibuchi   +3 more
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On negative Sprites and the Polarity Paradox

Geophysical Research Letters, 2019
Energetic positive and negative cloud‐to‐ground (CG) flashes are both capable of producing sprites. Negative CGs typically outnumber the positive ones by 10 to 1.
Alfred Bing‐Chih Chen, Han Chen, Chia‐Wen Chuang, Steven A. Cummer, Gaopeng Lu, Hui‐Kuan Fang, Han‐Tzong Su, Rue‐Ron Hsu   +7 more
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Positive and negative polarity contrast sensitivity measuring app. [PDF]

IS&T Int Symp Electron Imaging, 2016
Hwang AD, Peli E.
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Enhancing glycan isomer separations with metal ions and positive and negative polarity ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry analyses. [PDF]

Anal Bioanal Chem, 2017
Zheng X, Zhang X, Schocker NS, Renslow RS, Orton DJ, Khamsi J, Ashmus RA, Almeida IC, Tang K, Costello CE, Smith RD, Michael K, Baker ES.   +12 more
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