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Presupposition of 'also' and 'regret' ...
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Abstract:
Previously we proposed a series of experiments to ask whether or not the reported fragility of the prejacent as the presupposition of the focus marker only is truly due to the wide range of alternatives that it denotes. The first experiment (https://osf.io/frg6s) manipulated the way subjects provided their intuition regarding the sentences with only (either by choosing from a fixed range of interpretations or by crafting their own interpretation). In line with our prediction, the results show that an interpretation that violates the presupposition of only was more common among the fixed-choice group, perhaps by virtue of the interpretation being presented to them, than among the free-choice group. The second experiment (https://osf.io/fnw69) manipulated the presence of a context immediately preceding a test sentence with only under negation, which is famously difficult to parse. We predicted that the context would make it easier for subjects to parse the negative test sentence, which could make them more ...
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FOS Languages and literature; Linguistics; Semantics and Pragmatics; Social and Behavioral Sciences
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URL: https://osf.io/2rjv5/
https://dx.doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/2rjv5
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