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Lisa Bylinina, Yasu Sudo and Stavroula Alexandropoulou: Priming acceptability judgments of NPIs
Lisa Bylinina, Yasu Sudo and Stavroula Alexandropoulou
Priming acceptability judgments of NPIs
We report on a series of priming experiments whose results indicate that (i) acceptability judgments of the Negative Polarity Item (NPI) ‘any’ can be primed, but (ii) only unacceptable sentences of the same type, i.e., those that contain unlincensed ‘any’, trigger priming effects. While these findings on their own have only indirect implications on theories of NPI licensing, we argue that our paradigm has methodological importance, offering a novel way of directly testing theoretical predictions. We will illustrate this with the so-called NPI bagel problem and present preliminary priming results on Russian NPIs.
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