Semantics and visual cognition: the processing of Bulgarian and Polish majority quantifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3765/exabs.v0i0.603Abstract
I provide experimental evidence that quantifier semantics is transparently associated with a canonical verification strategy (Lidz et al. 2011). I tested the processing of two majority quantifiers in Bulgarian and Polish: Most1, the counterpart of English most, and Most2, meaning "the largest subset". Three notable results have been obtained: (i) Most1 is verified by a Subtraction strategy, directly replicating the findings of Lidz et al. for Slavic; (ii) Most2 is verified by a Selection strategy in accordance with its lexical semantics; (iii) the canonical verification strategies are used even in cases where either strategy would yield the correct truth value.Downloads
Published
2012-04-08
Issue
Section
Articles
License
Published by the LSA with permission of the author(s) under a CC BY 4.0 license.