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Acquisition of polarity items in Czech children: An experimental study
Crossroads, 2020 The Czech polarity items i and ani are traditionally treated as English even. This paper deals with the acquisition of these polarity items in Czech children. These focus/scalar particles are specific for their sensitivity to probability.
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The Interpretation of Disjunction in the Scope of Dou in Child Mandarin
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 A recent theory provides a unified cross-linguistic analysis of the interpretations that are assigned to expressions for disjunction, Negative Polarity Items, Free Choice Items, and the non-interrogative uses of wh-phrases in languages such as Mandarin ...
Shasha An, Peng Zhou, Stephen Crain
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Processing Attenuating NPIs in Indicative and Counterfactual Conditionals
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Both indicative and counterfactual conditionals are known to be licensing contexts for negative polarity items (NPIs). However, a recent theoretical account suggests that the licensing of attenuating NPIs like English all that in the conditional ...
Juliane Schwab, Mingya Liu
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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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When ni- and -nibud’ are logically equivalent: Evidence from Russian nominalizations [PDF]
Rhema. Рема, 2020 This paper deals with the two sets of polarity sensitive items in Russian: ni- and -nibud’ pronouns. Non-specific indefinite -nibud’ pronouns (NSIs) are possible only in propositions that do not ensure truth, i.e. non-veridical contexts.
A. Gerasimova
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Sobre las restricciones distribucionales de casi [PDF]
Sintagma, 2020 This paper studies the distributional restrictions that the approximative adverb casi (‘almost’) displays. From a descriptive point of view, it is shown that casi is incompatible with negation when this adverb modifies a numeral word ...
Raquel González Rodríguez
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Broad attention uncovers benefits of stimulus uniformity in visual crowding
Scientific Reports, 2021 Crowding is the interference by surrounding objects (flankers) with target perception. Low target-flanker similarity usually yields weaker crowding than high similarity (‘similarity rule’) with less interference, e.g., by opposite- than same-contrast ...
Koen Rummens, Bilge Sayim
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Journal of Semantics, 2020 AbstractThis article offers a unified theory of the licensing of Negative and Positive Polarity Items (PIs), focusing on the acceptability conditions of PPIs of the some-type, and NPIs of the any-type. It argues that licensing has both a syntactic and a semantic component.
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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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Licensing German negative polarity items in LTAG [PDF]
Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms - TAGRF '06, 2006 Our paper aims at capturing the distribution of negative polarity items (NPIs) within lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (LTAG). The condition under which an NPI can occur in a sentence is for it to be in the scope of a negation with no quantifiers scopally intervening.
Lichte, Timm, Kallmeyer, Laura
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