Representing Polar Questions

Tian, Ye; Tiel, Bob van; Clin, Elise; Breheny, Richard

doi:10.1007/s10936-021-09814-y

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“…Liu & Barthel (2021), Orenes (2021) and Zevakhina & Prigorkina (2021) are all concerned with the processing of conditionals from different perspectives (i.e., in terms of logic-semantic vs. pragmatic meanings, symbolic vs. iconic representations and speech acts of promises vs. threats). Tian et al (2021) reports experimental work on different kinds of polar questions. compares the processing of different kinds of conditionals in comparison with questions, with a focus on the effects of modal verbs and discourse adverbs.…”

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The Processing of Negation and Polarity: An Overview

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Liu

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J Psycholinguist Res

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Negation is a universal component of human language; polarity sensitivity (i.e., lexical distributional constraints in relation to negation) is arguably so while being pervasive across languages. Negation has long been a field of inquiry in psychological theories and experiments of reasoning, which inspired many follow-up studies of negation and negation-related phenomena in psycholinguistics. In generative theoretical linguistics, negation and polarity sensitivity have been extensively studied, as the related phenomena are situated at the interfaces of syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and are thus extremely revealing about the architecture of grammar. With the now long tradition of research on negation and polarity in psychology and psycholinguistics, and the emerging field of experimental semantics and pragmatics, a multitude of interests and experimental paradigms have emerged which call for re-evaluations and further development and integration. This special issue contains a collection of 16 research articles on the processing of negation and negation-related phenomena including polarity items, questions, conditionals, and irony, using a combination of behavioral (e.g., rating, reading, eye-tracking and sentence completion) and neuroimaging techniques (e.g., EEG). They showcase the processing of negation and polarity with or without context, in various languages and across different populations (adults, typically developing and ADHD children). The integration of multiple theoretical and empirical perspectives in this collection provides new insights, methodological advances and directions for future research.

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Section: Modals Questions Conditionals and Discourse Adverbsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Processing of Negation and Polarity: An Overview

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Kaup

Liu

et al. 2021

J Psycholinguist Res

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Verifying Negative Sentences

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Tian

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In the long history of psycholinguistic research on verifying negative sentences, an often-reported finding is that participants take longer to correctly judge negative sentences true than false, while being faster to judge their positive counterparts true (e.g. Clark & Chase, Cogn Psychol 3(3):472−517, 1972; Carpenter & Just, Psychol Rev 82(1):45–73, 1975). While many linguists and psycholinguists have strongly advocated the idea that the costs and complexity of negation can be explained by appeal to context, context-based approaches have not been able to provide a satisfying account of this polarity*truth-value interaction. By contrast, the alternative theory of negation processing, which says that negation is processed by separately representing the positive, does provide a plausible account. Our proposals provide a means for reconciliation between the two views since we argue that negation is a strong cue to a positive context. Here we present our account of why and when negation is often apparently processed via the positive. We review many of the factors that are seen to be at play in sentence verification involving negation. We present evidence that participants’ adoption of the positive-first procedure in sentence-picture verification tasks is conditioned by context.

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Representing Polar Questions

Cited by 2 publications

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The Processing of Negation and Polarity: An Overview

The Processing of Negation and Polarity: An Overview

Verifying Negative Sentences

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