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    "pk": 30049,
    "title": "English Speakers Produce and Understand Expletive Negation",
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    "abstract": "Romance languages are well known for their use of expletive\nnegation (henceforth, EN), i.e., the occurrence of a negator in\nthe complement clause of certain verbs, adpositions or adverbs\nthat is “illogically” not part of the meaning of the sentence.\nThis study explores the hypothesis that such “illogism” that\nrecurs across languages must be due to universal properties of\nthe message to be encoded and the language production system.\nJin & Koenig (2019) proposed a language production model to\naccount for the striking similarity of EN-triggers between two\nunrelated languages (French and Mandarin). Their model\nmakes several predictions which our paper tests: (i) languages\nlike English where EN is purported not to occur should in fact\ninclude the same range of EN-triggers; (ii) English speakers\ncan understand a negator within the scope of an EN-trigger\nexpletively; (iii) the likelihood a speaker of English will\nunderstand a negator expletively is correlated with how\nfrequently she has encountered an expletive interpretation of\nnegators for that particular trigger. To test the first prediction,\nwe conducted a corpus study of unrehearsed English speech on\nGoogle. To test the second prediction, we conducted a semantic\nStroop-like comprehension experiment where participants’\nsemantic judgements (both logical accuracy and response time)\nwas dependent on whether a negator was interpreted logically\nor expletively. Overall, this paper suggests that EN is by no\nmeans specific to Romance languages and that expletive uses\nof negators occur in the same contexts in both production and\ncomprehension in languages where EN is not conventionalized\nto the same degree it is in Romance. Overall, our results\nsupport the claim that “illogical” properties of natural\nlanguages that recur across languages of the world reflect\nuniversal properties of the language production system.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "expletive negation; language production; speech\nerror; language comprehension; semantics"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Poster Session 3",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7x53x7x2",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Yanwei",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Jin",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University at Buffalo",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jean-Pierre",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Koenig",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University at Buffalo",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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