On The Analysis of Scope Ambiguities in Comparative Constructions: Converging Evidence from Real-Time Sentence Processing and Offline Data
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Breakstone, Micha Y.
Fox, Daniel
Cremers, Alexandre
Hackl, Martin
Date Issued
April 2015
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Proceedings of SALT
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Linguistic Society of America
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Breakstone, Micha Yochanan, et al. “On The Analysis of Scope Ambiguities in Comparative Constructions: Converging Evidence from Real-Time Sentence Processing and Offline Data.” Proceedings of SALT, 20-22 May, 2011, New Brunswick, New Jersey, edited by Neil Ashton, Anca Chereches, and David Lutz, Linguistic Society of America, 2011. © 2011 Breakstone, Cremers, Fox & Hackl
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Abstract
This paper compares two accounts of an ambiguity that arises when a comparative phrase containing an exactly differential is embedded under an intensional operator (Heim 2000). Under one account, the comparative phrase is responsible for the ambiguity (the er-scope theory), and, under the other, the ambiguity is attributed to the exactly phrase (the exactly-scope theory). We present converging evidence from the distribution of de re and de dicto readings and real time sentence processing that supports the er-scope theory. Since the er-scope theory presupposes a quantificational analysis of the comparative, such an analysis is ipso facto supported by our results. Keywords: Comparatives; Scope; Sentence Processing
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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https://doi.org/10.3765/SALT.V0I0.2609
