The impact of focus particles on the recognition and rejection of contrastive alternatives
- 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.
Verfasserangaben: | Nicole Gotzner, Isabell WartenburgerORCiDGND, Katharina Spalek |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2015.25 |
ISSN: | 1866-9808 |
ISSN: | 1866-9859 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Language and cognition : an interdisciplinary journal of language and cognitive science |
Verlag: | Cambridge Univ. Press |
Verlagsort: | Cambridge |
Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2016 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2016 |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 22.03.2020 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | alternative-set semantics; competitive inhibition; focus particles; lexical decision task; probe recognition task |
Band: | 8 |
Seitenanzahl: | 37 |
Erste Seite: | 59 |
Letzte Seite: | 95 |
Peer Review: | Referiert |
Name der Einrichtung zum Zeitpunkt der Publikation: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Exzellenzbereich Kognitionswissenschaften |