Quantifiers are incrementally interpreted in context, more than less
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Quantifiers are incrementally interpreted in context, more than less.
Language interpretation is often assumed to be incremental. However, our studies of quantifier expressions in isolated sentences found N400 event-related brain potential (ERP) evidence for partial but not full immediate quantifier interpretation (Urbach & Kutas, 2010). Here we tested similar quantifier expressions in pragmatically supporting discourse contexts (Alex was an unusual toddler. Most...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Memory and Language
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0749-596X
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2015.03.010