Negative polarity illusions

H Muller, C Phillips - 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Although decades of research have illuminated the licensing requirements, both syntactic
and semantic, of negative polarity items, the matter of how these licensing requirements are …

Assessing the Role of Experimental Evidence for Interface Judgment: Licensing of Negative Polarity Items, Scalar Readings, and Focus

A Giannakidou, U Etxeberria - Frontiers in psychology, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
This paper reviews a series of experimental studies that address what we call “interface
judgment,” which is the complex judgment involving integration from multiple levels of …

Investigating a neural language model's replicability of psycholinguistic experiments: A case study of NPI licensing

U Shin, E Yi, S Song - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
The recent success of deep learning neural language models such as Bidirectional Encoder
Representations from Transformers (BERT) has brought innovations to computational …

Processing sentences with multiple negations: Grammatical structures that are perceived as unacceptable

I de-Dios-Flores - Frontiers in Psychology, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
This investigation draws from research on negative polarity item (NPI) illusions in order to
explore a new and interesting instance of misalignment observed for grammatical sentences …

Positive polarity items: an illusion of ungrammaticality

W Orth, S Sloggett, M Yoshida - Language, Cognition and …, 2025‏ - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Negative Polarity Item (NPIs) produce an illusion of grammaticality in some
contexts with negation. Many approaches to modelling the NPI illusion propose that it is …

[PDF][PDF] Negative polarity illusion in Korean

J Yun, SY Lee, JE Drury - Proceedings of WAFL, 2018‏ - linguistics.stonybrook.edu
Negative Polarity Illusion refers to the phenomenon that a potential licensor interferes the
judgment of a negative polarity item (NPI) even though it is not in the proper licensing …

Parsers and Grammars: A Tutorial Overview from the Linguistics Building

C Acuña-Fariña - Brain Sciences, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the relationship between grammars and
processing systems in light of the various forms of experimental research (especially of an …

Spurious NPI licensing and exhaustification

JA Mendia, E Poole, B Dillon - Semantics and …, 2018‏ - journals.linguisticsociety.org
Under certain circumstances, speakers are subject to so-called spurious NPI licensing
effects, whereby they perceive that NPIs without ac–commanding licensor are in fact …

Verb-second in grammar, processing, and acquisition: What you see is not what you get

C Freitag - 2019‏ - kops.uni-konstanz.de
The verb second (V2) phenomenon received a lot of attention in last decades. By now, it is
widely accepted among syntacticians that the finite verb originates from a base position and …

Quantification at a distance and grammatical illusions in French

J Pasquereau, B Dillon, L Frazier - Syntax, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Recent research in psycholinguistics supports the hypothesis that retrieval from working
memory is a key component of establishing syntactic dependencies in comprehension. This …