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Thomas P Urbach¹, Marta Kutas

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Quantifier interpretation during reading is not immediate or fully delayed. Event-related brain potentials reveal nuanced processing of quantifier expressions, impacting sentence comprehension.

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Area of Science:

Psycholinguistics
Cognitive Neuroscience
Computational Linguistics

Background:

Quantifier expressions (e.g., 'most', 'few') are crucial for sentence meaning.
The timing and extent of quantifier interpretation during real-time language processing remain debated.
Event-related potentials (ERPs) offer insights into the neural dynamics of language comprehension.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the hypothesis that quantifier expressions are interpreted fully and immediately during reading.
To examine the neural correlates of processing quantifier scope and object typicality.
To differentiate between immediate, delayed, and incremental processing models of quantifiers.

Main Methods:

Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) of sentences.
Recording of event-related brain potentials (ERPs), specifically the N400 component.
Off-line plausibility ratings for sentence verification.
Analysis of ERPs and behavioral data across different quantifier types and object typicality.

Main Results:

Larger N400 amplitudes were observed for atypical objects compared to typical objects, indicating semantic processing load.
Plausibility ratings supported a full interpretation of quantifiers, but N400 effects did not fully reverse as predicted by immediate interpretation.
A frontal slow positivity was associated with 'few' and 'rarely' quantifiers in atypical contexts, suggesting distinct processing mechanisms.

Conclusions:

Quantifier interpretation during reading is neither fully immediate nor fully delayed, suggesting an incremental but not instantaneous process.
Processing differences exist among quantifier types, with specific ERP signatures for certain quantifiers and contexts.
The findings challenge models of immediate quantifier scope assignment and highlight the complexity of semantic integration in real-time language processing.