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Some Alternatives? Event-Related Potential Investigation of Literal and Pragmatic Interpretations of Some Presented in Isolation

Cécile Barbet; Guillaume Thierry · 2016 · Frontiers in Psychology

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Abstract

In sentence verification tasks involving under-informative statements such as Some elephants are mammals, some adults appear more tolerant to pragmatic violations than others. The underlying causes of such inter-individual variability remain however essentially unknown. Here, we investigated inter-individual variation in adults deriving the scalar inference "not all" triggered by the quantifier some. We first assessed the individual intolerance to pragmatic violations in adult participants presented with under-informative some-statements (e.g., Some infants are young). We then recorded event-r

Abstract by Cécile Barbet; Guillaume Thierry, Frontiers in Psychology (2016) — licensed CC BY 4.0.

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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01479