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Spychalska, Maria; Kontinen, Jarmo; Noveck, Ira; Reimer, Ludmila; Werning, Markus – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
It is generally assumed that bare numerals (e.g., "three") have two readings: the "exactly" and the "at least" reading. It has been a matter of debate whether one of these two readings is derived from the other pragmatically. To shed light on this question research has aimed at characterizing the processing demands…
Descriptors: Sentences, Numbers, Prediction, Ambiguity (Context)
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Schweppe, Judith – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
One pronoun production experiment and one pronoun comprehension experiment were performed to investigate the role of grammatical number information in long-distance anaphora, with referent and pronoun either in adjacent sentences or separated by an intervening sentence. The experiments tested the assumption that the influence of grammatical number…
Descriptors: Grammar, Form Classes (Languages), Numbers, Number Concepts
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Kelly, Ronald R.; Berent, Gerald P. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2011
This research contrasted deaf and hearing students' interpretive knowledge of English sentences containing numeral quantifier phrases and indefinite noun phrases. A multiple-interpretation picture task methodology was used to assess 305 participants' judgments of the compatibility of sentence meanings with depicted discourse contexts.…
Descriptors: Semantics, Pragmatics, Deafness, English