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Presupposition of 'only'; a follow-up ...
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Abstract:
In our previous project (pre-registration URL: https://osf.io/frg6s), we proposed a sequence of experiments to ask whether or not the reported fragility of the prejacent as the presupposition of only is truly due to the existence of other alternatives in the English-speakers’ mind. The first experiment (Experiment 1) 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 (Experiment 2) manipulated the presence of an affirmative sentence with only immediately preceding a negative sentence with only. We predicted that the former would facilitate the processing of the latter, which in turn would make it ...
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FOS Languages and literature; Linguistics; Semantics and Pragmatics; Social and Behavioral Sciences
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URL: https://osf.io/fnw69/
https://dx.doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/fnw69
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