TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gotzner, Nicole
A1  - Wartenburger, Isabell
A1  - Spalek, Katharina
T1  - The impact of focus particles on the recognition and rejection of
contrastive alternatives
JF  - Language and cognition : an interdisciplinary journal of language and cognitive science
N2  - The semantics of focus particles like only requires a set of alternatives (Rooth, 1992). In two experiments, we investigated the impact of such particles on the retrieval of alternatives that are mentioned in the prior context or unmentioned. The first experiment used a probe recognition task and showed that focus particles interfere with the recognition of mentioned alternatives and the rejection of unmentioned alternatives relative to a condition without a particle. A second lexical decision experiment demonstrated priming effects for mentioned and unmentioned alternatives (compared with an unrelated condition) while focus particles caused additional interference effects. Overall, our results indicate that focus particles trigger an active search for alternatives and lead to a competition between mentioned alternatives, unmentioned alternatives, and the focused element.
KW  - focus particles
KW  - alternative-set semantics
KW  - probe recognition task
KW  - lexical decision task
KW  - competitive inhibition
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2015.25
SN  - 1866-9808
SN  - 1866-9859
VL  - 8
SP  - 59
EP  - 95
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Gotzner, Nicole
A1  - Wartenburger, Isabell
A1  - Spalek, Katharina
T1  - The impact of focus particles on the recognition and rejection of contrastive alternatives
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - The semantics of focus particles like only requires a set of alternatives (Rooth, 1992). In two experiments, we investigated the impact of such particles on the retrieval of alternatives that are mentioned in the prior context or unmentioned. The first experiment used a probe recognition task and showed that focus particles interfere with the recognition of mentioned alternatives and the rejection of unmentioned alternatives relative to a condition without a particle. A second lexical decision experiment demonstrated priming effects for mentioned and unmentioned alternatives (compared with an unrelated condition) while focus particles caused additional interference effects. Overall, our results indicate that focus particles trigger an active search for alternatives and lead to a competition between mentioned alternatives, unmentioned alternatives, and the focused element.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 517 
KW  - focus particles
KW  - alternative-set semantics
KW  - probe recognition task
KW  - lexical decision task
KW  - competitive inhibition
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-413420
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 517
ER  -