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Evaluation of internal reliability in the presence of inconsistent responses

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2010
Background We aimed to assess the impact of inconsistent responses on the internal reliability of a multi-item scale by developing a procedure to adjust Cronbach's alpha.
Lam T H, Ho S Y, Fong Daniel YT
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A Note on –mAdAn (önce)

Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2015
The paper discusses the morphological make-up of the converbial ending –mAdAn in adverbial clauses denoting temporal antecedence (before-clauses) and negative manner (without-clauses).
Martina Gracanin-Yüksek
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Not just 'any' sign! Searching for negative polarity items in DGS

, 2022
These are the slides, transcript and abstract of the on-stage presentation "Not just any sign!
Loos, Cornelia, Schulder, Marc
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Universal Quantifier PPIs

Glossa, 2017
Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) that denote lower scalar endpoints, such as existentials like any or ever, are often said to be only fine in Downward Entailing contexts, since outside such contexts their semantics would give rise to a contradiction ...
Hedde Zeijlstra
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Negative polarity items: a case for questions as licensers

, 2017
Existing analyses of NPI licensing in questions instantiate two different approaches. One approach holds that questions are NPI licensers in their own right (Kadmon & Landman 1990; Krifka 1995, 2003; van Rooy 2003); the other holds that, in virtue of ...
Bernhard Schwarz
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Asymmetries in the Acceptability and Felicity of English Negative Dependencies: Where Negative Concord and Negative Polarity (Do Not) Overlap

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Negative Concord (NC) constructions such as the news anchor didn’t warn nobody about the floods (meaning “the news anchor warned nobody”), in which two syntactic negations contribute a single semantic one, are stigmatized in English, while their Negative
Frances Blanchette, Cynthia Lukyanenko
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Is there any negative polarity in romanian?

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2008
I discuss the distribution and interpretation of the Romanian determiner vreun and analyze it as a special polarity item. I put forth the generalizations that capture its peculiar distribution: on the one hand, vreun has the behavior of a typical ...
Anamaria Fălăuş
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Multiple Negation in Asian Englishes: A Corpus-Based Analysis

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses
Multiple negation is a linguistic structure that entails the coexistence of two or more negative polarity items within the same clause (e.g., She does not have nothing) to create an emphatic meaning. Although the occurrence of this linguistic variant has
María Victoria Rodríguez-Lázaro
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L1 and L2 Judgments of Pragmatically Licensed Negative Polarity Items

This project investigates judgments of negative polarity items under different licensors by L1 Spanish L2 English speakers. Participants rate sentences containing negative polarity items on a scale of 1-7; the NPIs are licensed by "no" and "only ...
Grace deMeurisse, Edith Kaan
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Negative Polarity Items in the Ao Dialect of Yoruba

, 2013
This paper discusses negative polarity items in the Ào dialect of Yorùbá, one of the three major languages spoken in Nigeria. Earlier works on the dialect revealed that it does not have independent negative markers unlike the situation in standard Yorùbá.
Taiwo, O
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