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Quantification and polarity: negative adverbial intensifiers ('never ever', 'not at all', etc.) in Hausa [PDF]
, 2009 Hausa has a typologically interesting but poorly understood set of quantifying time and degree adverbs—equivalent to English 'never ever', 'not at all', etc.—which behave as negative polarity items and enhance the pragmatic impact of a negative utterance
Jaggar, Philip J.
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The recent success of deep learning neural language models such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) has brought innovations to computational language research.
Unsub Shin, Eunkyung Yi, Sanghoun Song
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C-command constraints in German: A corpus-based investigation
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2022 Reinhart (1983) proposed that quantificational binding is subject to a surface c-command condition. Her claim has been widely accepted in the literature on the syntax-semantics interface.
Webelhuth Gert
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Entrepalavras: Revista de Linguística do Departamento de Letras Vernáculas da Universidade Federal do Ceará, 2016 The Modern Hebrew adverbial bixlal (at all /any /actually/in fact /even /anyway /in general/ generally /altogether /in the first place) seems puzzling from a synchronic point of view since it functions both as a NPI lo..bixlal /bixlal lo (not…any/at all)
Ruti Bardenstein
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Negative properties of quantifiers in English and Swedish [PDF]
Studii de Lingvistica, 2021 In this paper we report the results from two small-scale studies on monotone decreasing (negative) quantifying expressions (QEs) and their negative polarity properties.
Eva Klingvall , Fredrik Heinat
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Distinct patterns of neural activity during memory formation of nonwords versus words [PDF]
, 2007 Research into the neural underpinnings of memory formation has focused on the encoding of familiar verbal information. Here, we address how the brain supports the encoding of novel information that does not have meaning.
Otten, LJ, Quayle, AH, Sveen, J
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Glossa, 2018 This paper reports on five experiments investigating intervention effects in negative polarity item (NPI) licensing. Such intervention effects involve the unexpected ungrammaticality of sentences that contain an intervener, such as a universal quantifier,
Emmanuel Chemla, Lyn Tieu, Milica Denić
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Quirky n-words in Polish: NPIs, Negative Qantifiers or neither?
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004 The present paper investigates the contexts in which the so-called n-words - the items which are taken to be Negative Polarity Items in Slavic languages - unexpectedly occur without a licensing negation marker on the verb.
Patrycja Jablonska
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The OL-DAWE Model: Tweet Polarity Sentiment Analysis With Data Augmentation
IEEE Access, 2020 Introducing negative items into sentences can shift the polarity of emotional words and leads to misclassification. Therefore, dealing with the negative item is indispensable to the analysis of the polarity of tweets.
Wenhuan Wang +4 more
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Determining the Types of Contrasts: The Influences of Prosody on Pragmatic Inferences
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This study explores the issues involving pragmatic inferences with prosodic cues. Although there is a well-established literature from multiple languages demonstrating how different pragmatic inferences can be applied to the same syntactic structure, few
I-Hsuan Chen +2 more
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