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Negative polarity item (NPI) illusion is a quantification phenomenon.

Wesley Orth1, Masaya Yoshida1, Shayne Sloggett1

  • 1Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University.

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition
|September 7, 2021
PubMed
Summary

The negative polarity item (NPI) illusion is not universal. Specific negative quantifiers like "no" and "not a single" trigger this illusion, challenging current sentence processing theories.

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