Repository: OpenScienceRepository
Depends: R (>= 2.14)
Date: 2010-01-01 00:00:00
Title: Exhaustiveness effects in clefts are not truth-functional
Description: While it is widely acknowledged in the formal semantic literature that both the truth-functional focus particle only and it-clefts convey exhaustiveness, the nature and source of exhaustiveness effects with it-clefts remain contested. We describe a question- naire study (n 1/4 80) and an event-related brain potentials (ERP) study (n 1/4 16) that investigated the violation of exhaustiveness in German only-foci versus it-clefts. The offline study showed that a violation of exhaustivity with only is less acceptable than the violation with it-clefts, suggesting a difference in the nature of exhaustivity interpretation in the two environments. The ERP- results confirm that this difference can be seen in online pro- cessing as well: a violation of exhaustiveness in only-foci elicited a centro-posterior positivity (600-800ms), whereas a violation in it-clefts induced a globally distributed N400 pattern (400-600ms). The positivity can be interpreted as a reanalysis process and more generally as a process of context updating. The N400 effect in it-clefts is interpreted as indexing a cancelation process that is functionally distinct from the only case. The ERP study is, to our knowledge, the first evidence from an online experimental para- digm which shows that the violation of exhaustiveness involves different underlying processes in the two structural environments.   Journal of Neurolinguistics  
Author: Heiner Drenhaus and Malte Zimmermann and Shravan Vasishth
Maintainer: Heiner Drenhaus
Authors@R: c(person(given ="Heiner", family = "Drenhaus", role = c("aut", "cre")), person(given ="Malte", family = "Zimmermann", role = c("aut")), person(given ="Shravan", family = "Vasishth", role = c("aut")))
Package: DrenhausZimmermannVasishth2010
Version: 1.0
License: CC BY-NC (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/de/)
