The only one strategy in context

Luisa Meroni; Francesca Foppolo; Marco Marelli; Andrea Gualmini

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2014.04.003

The only one strategy in context

Luisa Meroni, Francesca Foppolo, Marco Marelli, Andrea Gualmini

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This paper investigates domain restriction in the resolution of privative ambiguities of sentences like The orange parakeet is the only one that is hiding itself, which is ambiguous between an anaphoric and an exophoric interpretation. Previous work by Crain et al. (1994) argued for a built-in parsing preference for weak readings of privative ambiguities. Manipulating the amount of the contextual information available, we present results that challenge Crain et al.’s conclusion: in our study, we show that context takes precedence over truth-conditional considerations in the resolution of privative ambiguities in adults.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	266–275
Number of pages	10
Journal	Lingua
Volume	145
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2014.04.003
Publication status	Published - Jun 2014

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