Journal
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 63, Issue 12, Pages 2305-2312Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2010.525712
Keywords
Negation; Language comprehension; Simulation; Pragmatics
Funding
- Arts and Humanities Research Council [AH/E002358/1]
- Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (Oslo)
- AHRC [AH/E002358/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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A well-established finding in the simulation literature is that participants simulate the positive argument of negation soon after reading a negative sentence, prior to simulating a scene consistent with the negated sentence (Kaup, Ludtke, Zwaan, 2006; Kaup, Yaxley, Madden, Zwaan, Ludtke, 2007). One interpretation of this finding is that negation requires two steps to process: first represent what is being negated then orejecto that in favour of a representation of a negation-consistent state of affairs (Kaup et al., 2007). In this paper we argue that this finding with negative sentences could be a by-product of the dynamic way that language is interpreted relative to a common ground and not the way that negation is represented. We present a study based on Kaup et al. (2007) that tests the competing accounts. Our results suggest that some negative sentences are not processed in two steps, but provide support for the alternative, dynamic account.
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