The emergence of scalar meanings

This paper analyzes the emergence of scalar additive meanings. We show that in Basque the same particle ere can obtain both the “simple additive” reading (akin to English too) and the “scalar additive” reading (akin to English even) but we argue that we do not have to distinguish two types of ere. W...

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Autores principales: Etxeberria, Urtzi, Irurtzun, Aritz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4333776/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25745405
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00141
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description This paper analyzes the emergence of scalar additive meanings. We show that in Basque the same particle ere can obtain both the “simple additive” reading (akin to English too) and the “scalar additive” reading (akin to English even) but we argue that we do not have to distinguish two types of ere. We provide evidence, by means of a production and a perception experiment, that the reading is disambiguated by means of prosody (the placement of nuclear stress), which is a correlate of focus. We argue that the scalarity effect is generated by the combination of two presuppositions (a focus-induced one and a lexical one) and the assertion of the sentence.
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spelling pubmed-43337762015-03-05 The emergence of scalar meanings Etxeberria, Urtzi Irurtzun, Aritz Front Psychol Psychology This paper analyzes the emergence of scalar additive meanings. We show that in Basque the same particle ere can obtain both the “simple additive” reading (akin to English too) and the “scalar additive” reading (akin to English even) but we argue that we do not have to distinguish two types of ere. We provide evidence, by means of a production and a perception experiment, that the reading is disambiguated by means of prosody (the placement of nuclear stress), which is a correlate of focus. We argue that the scalarity effect is generated by the combination of two presuppositions (a focus-induced one and a lexical one) and the assertion of the sentence. Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-02-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4333776/ /pubmed/25745405 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00141 Text en Copyright © 2015 Etxeberria and Irurtzun. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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