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- Focus sensitive particles highlight the relevance of contextual alternatives for the interpretation of a sentence. Two experiments tested whether this leads to better encoding and therefore, ultimately, better recall of focus alternatives. Participants were presented with auditory stimuli that introduced a set of elements ("context sentence") and continued in three different versions: the critical sentences either contained the exclusive particle nur ("only"), the inclusive particle sogar ("even"), or no particle (control condition). After being exposed to blocks of ten trials, participants were asked to recall the elements in the context sentence. The results show that both particles enhanced memory performance for the alternatives to the focused element, relative to the control condition. The results support the assumption that information-structural alternatives are better encoded in memory in the presence of a focus sensitive particle.
Author details: | Katharina SpalekORCiDGND, Nicole GotznerORCiDGND, Isabell WartenburgerORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2013.09.001 |
ISSN: | 0749-596X |
ISSN: | 1096-0821 |
Title of parent work (English): | Journal of memory and language : JML |
Subtitle (English): | Focus sensitive particles improve memory for information-structural alternatives |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Place of publishing: | San Diego |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2014 |
Publication year: | 2014 |
Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
Tag: | Alternative set; Delayed recall; Focus particles; Information structure; Memory |
Volume: | 70 |
Number of pages: | 17 |
First page: | 68 |
Last Page: | 84 |
Funding institution: | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Stifterverband fur die Deutsche Wissenschaft (Claussen-Simon-Stiftung) |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 370 Bildung und Erziehung | |
4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache | |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
External remark: | Corrigendum: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2020.104181 |