Monolingual and bilingual logical representations of quantificational scope: Evidence from priming in language comprehension

Slim, Mieke Sarah; Lauwers, Peter; Hartsuiker, Robert J.

doi:10.1016/j.jml.2020.104184

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“…These results thus indicate that priming of logical representations is possible from the L2 onto the L2 as well (as previously observed in Slim et al, 2021). This result is not unexpected, as we observed that logical representations can also be primed from the L2 onto the L1, which already indicated that logical representations constructed in the L2 are strong enough to trigger priming effects.…”

Section: Cross-linguistic Influence and Priming In Bilingual Logical Representations 32supporting

confidence: 90%

“…To our knowledge, only one study has tested whether such logical representation priming also persists between languages, and that is Slim, Lauwers, and Hartsuiker (2021). They used similar sentencepicture matching tasks as Raffray and Pickering (2010) and Feiman and Snedeker (2016) to prime the representations of doubly quantified sentences like All hikers are climbing a hill in Dutch-French monolingual and bilingual language comprehension.…”

Section: Bilingual Representations and Between-language Primingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Otherwise, priming from the L1 onto the L2 would be unexpected. Moreover, because priming within the L1, within the L2 and from the L1 onto the L2 was comparable, Slim et al (2021) concluded that the bilingual logical representations under consideration were fully shared between languages. Alternatively, it could have been the case that bilingual logical representations are not shared but connected.…”

Section: Bilingual Representations and Between-language Primingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Structural priming shows that language processing can influence subsequent language processing in the short-term (i.e., on a trial-by-trial basis; Bock & Griffin, 2000;Chang, Dell & Bock, 2006;Pickering & Branigan, 1998; though effects of priming may last for a week, Luka & Choi, 2012). Cross-linguistic priming therefore indicates that short-term representations (i.e., representations that are computed on each instance of language processing) are shared between languages (e.g., Hartsuiker et al, 2004;Slim et al, 2021). Cross-linguistic influence, on the other hand, indicates that long-term representations, which can be defined as pre-existing knowledge about the rules and structures of a language, are also integrated in the mind of a bilingual (e.g., Merema & Speelman, 2015;Macken et al, 2014; see also Van Gompel & Arai, 2018).…”

Section: Cross-linguistic Influencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…We tested these question in five sentence-picture matching experiments that were designed to elicit priming effects on the level of logical representations in the comprehension of all…not sentences (Raffray & Pickering, 2010;Feiman & Snedeker, 2016;Slim et al, 2021; see also Branigan et al, 2005). We investigated the role of cross-linguistic influence in the interpretation of all…not sentence in these experiments by manipulating the prime and target language across experiments.…”

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Are Bilingual Logical Representations Shared?: Priming scopally ambiguous sentences in English, Estonian, and Dutch

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2021

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Do bilinguals use the same logical representations in processing both languages they know if the languages they know diverge on the preferred interpretation of a scopally ambiguous sentence? We investigated this question by studying effects of cross-linguistic influence and priming in the comprehension of scopally ambiguous all...not sentences. In this investigation, we focused on Estonian-English bilinguals, because these sentences are interpreted differently in English compared to Estonian.Across four sentence-picture matching experiments, we firstly observed that bilingual logical representations can be primed within languages (both from L1-to-L1 and from L2-to-L2) and between languages (both from L1-to-L2 and from L2-to-L1). This finding indicates that bilinguals make use of shared logical representations in processing the languages they know, and that logical representations do not specify language-specific biases in the assignment of scope. Secondly, we observed that bilinguals experience bidirectional cross-linguistic influence in the construction of logical representations. This finding suggests that bilingual representations of implicit knowledge about scopal preferences is integrated between the languages they know.

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Section: Cross-linguistic Influence and Priming In Bilingual Logical Representations 32supporting

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Section: Bilingual Representations and Between-language Primingmentioning

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Section: The Present Studymentioning

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Are Bilingual Logical Representations Shared?: Priming scopally ambiguous sentences in English, Estonian, and Dutch

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Revisiting the logic in language: The scope of 'each' and 'every' universal quantifier is alike after 'all'

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Hartsuiker

2023

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A doubly-quantified sentence like 'Every bear approached a tent is ambiguous': Did every bear approach a different tent, or did they approach the same tent? These two interpretations are assumed to be mentally represented as logical representations, which specify how the different quantifiers are assigned scope with respect to each other. Based on a structural priming study, Feiman and Snedeker (2016, Cognitive Psychology) argued that logical representations capture quantifier-specific combinatorial properties (e.g., the specification of every differs from the specification of each in logical representations). We re-examined this conclusion by testing logical representation priming in Dutch. Across four experiments, we observed that priming of logical representations emerged if the same quantifiers are repeated in prime and target, but also if the prime and target contained different quantifiers. However, logical representation priming between quantifiers emerged less consistently than priming within the same quantifier. More specifically, our results suggest that priming between quantifiers emerges more robustly if the participant is presented with quantifier variation in the prime trials than if they are presented with the same quantifier in all prime trials. When priming between quantifiers emerged, however, its strength was comparable to priming within the same quantifier. Therefore, we conclude that logical representations do not specify quantifier-specific biases in the assignment of scope.

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Structural priming during comprehension: A pattern from many pieces

Tooley

2022

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Monolingual and bilingual logical representations of quantificational scope: Evidence from priming in language comprehension

Cited by 4 publications

References 55 publications

Are Bilingual Logical Representations Shared?: Priming scopally ambiguous sentences in English, Estonian, and Dutch

Are Bilingual Logical Representations Shared?: Priming scopally ambiguous sentences in English, Estonian, and Dutch

Revisiting the logic in language: The scope of 'each' and 'every' universal quantifier is alike after 'all'

Structural priming during comprehension: A pattern from many pieces

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