Marty, Paul;
Romoli, Jacopo;
Sudo, Yasutada;
van Tiel, Bob;
Breheny, Richard;
(2024)
Scalar Inferencing, Polarity and Cognitive Load.
Glossa Psycholinguistics
, 3
(1)
10.5070/g60112566.
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Abstract
<p>According to the Polarity Hypothesis, the presence or absence of a processing cost for Scalar Inferences (SIs) depends on their polarity. This hypothesis predicts, among other things, that the processing of lower-bounding SIs should not be affected by cognitive load the same way upper-bounding SIs are. To date, evidence in support of this prediction comes from the comparison between upper-bounding and lower-bounding SIs elicited by disparate scalar words. In this paper, we report on two dual-task experiments testing this prediction in a more controlled way by comparing upper-bounding and lower-bounding SIs arising from the same scalar words or scale-mates operating over the same dimension. Results show that, for these more minimal comparisons, lower-bounding SIs involve comparable cognitive demands as their upper-bounding counterparts. These findings challenge the idea that load effects are consistently modulated by SI polarity and suggest instead that these effects are relatively consistent across different types of SIs. </p>
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Scalar Inferencing, Polarity and Cognitive Load |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.5070/g60112566 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/g60112566 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Glossa Psycholinguistics is a peer-reviewed open access journal published by the eScholarship Publishing. © 2024 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Linguistics |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10195126 |
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