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Investigating a neural language model’s replicability of psycholinguistic experiments: A case study of NPI licensing

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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Tags and Negative Polarity Items

Nordic Atlas of Language Structures Journal, 2017
Tags are elements or (remnant) clauses that attach to a sentence in order to signal various speech acts, e.g. the common question tags of the type is it? isn’t it?. An affirmative tag, which is used in order for the speaker to confirm the content of the matrix clause is presented in (1).
Østbø Munch, Christine B., Garbacz, Piotr   +1 more
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Intervention effects in NPI licensing: A quantitative assessment of the scalar implicature explanation

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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The syntax of negative polarity items in Central Kurdish

Cogent Arts & Humanities
This paper investigates the morpho-syntactic properties and structure of hych kasek ‘anyone’ and hych shitek ‘anything’, two negative polarity items (NPIs) in Central Kurdish (CK).
Hussein Al-Bataineh, Sameerah Tawfeeq Saeed   +1 more
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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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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, Chu-Ren Huang, Stephen Politzer-Ahles   +2 more
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Forking paths and polarity items licensing

ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 2006
There is an elegant account, proposed by Beaver and Condoravdi (2003), that assumes that the temporal connectives before and after are converses (i.e., they are analyzed by means of a unified lexical schema), and that explains away their different logical and veridical behavior appealing to other factors.
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A Question of Case

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004
In this paper I investigate a seemingly optional variation between accusative and partitive case in Finnish in yes/no questions and certain kinds of negative contexts.
Elsi Kaiser
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The definite article in Romance expletives and long weak definites

Glossa, 2017
This paper focuses on some issues involving expletive articles and long weak definites in Romance (mainly Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Catalan), in comparison to DPs that elicit a strong reading.
M.Teresa Espinal, Sonia Cyrino
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Compromising Positions and Polarity Items

Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2006
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