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Combining Natural Language Processing with Patient-Reported Outcome Measures scores to investigate the impact of pandemic regulations on anxiety in children

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Luijten MAJ   +10 more
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Negative Polarity Illusions

2020
AbstractAlthough decades of research have illuminated the licensing requirements, both syntactic and semantic, of negative polarity items, the matter of how these licensing requirements are satisfied in real time, as a sentence is being processed, remains an ill-understood problem.
Hanna Muller, Colin Phillips
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Negative Polarity Items

2020
AbstractThis chapter investigates the phenomenon of negative polarity sensitivity. The term negative polarity items (NPIs) has been introduced in the literature to refer to forms whose distribution was observed to polarize in negative contexts. NPIs can vary from indefinites that take a special form when they occur in the scope of negation, e.g. any in
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Licensing Negative Polarity Items

2021
This chapter concerns the role that syntax plays in licensing NPIs (negative polarity items). Scholars have argued for a semantic approach to characterizing the unifying properties of the wide range of licensors, such as negation, disjunction, interrogation, and subjunctives, licensors that all share the semantic notion of nonveridicality.
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Negative polarity and the comparative

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 1983
In this paper I have given a rather simple and, I believe, elegant semantics for the comparative, No account has been given of NP-comparatives involving measure noun phrases as in . See Klein (1980: 27ff.) for an excellent discussion.
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