{"pk":30160,"title":"Representational complexity and pragmatics cause the monotonicity effect","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Psycholinguistic studies have repeatedly demonstrated thatdownward entailing (DE) quantifiers are more difficult to pro-cess than upward entailing (UE) ones. We contribute to thecurrent debate on cognitive processes causing the monotonic-ity effect by testing predictions about the underlying processesderived from two competing theoretical proposals: two-stepand pragmatic processing models. We model reaction timesand accuracy from two verification experiments (a sentence-picture and a purely linguistic verification task), using the dif-fusion decision model (DDM). In both experiments, verifica-tion of UE quantifier more than half was compared to verifica-tion of DE quantifier fewer than half. Our analyses revealedthe same pattern of results across tasks: Both non-decisiontimes and drift rates, two of the free model parameters of theDDM, were affected by the monotonicity manipulation. Thus,our modeling results support both two-step (prediction: non-decision time is affected) and pragmatic processing models(prediction: drift rate is affected).","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"monotonicity; quantifiers; semantic representa-tions; pragmatics; diffusion decision mode"}],"section":"Papers accepted as Posters, appearing in proceedings only","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6417z0m0","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Fabian","middle_name":"","last_name":"Schlotterbeck","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of T ̈ubingen","department":""},{"first_name":"Sonia","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ramotowska","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Amsterdam","department":""},{"first_name":"Leendert","middle_name":"","last_name":"van Maanen","name_suffix":"","institution":"Utrecht University","department":""},{"first_name":"Jakub","middle_name":"","last_name":"Szymanik","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of T ̈ubingen","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T10:00:00-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30160/galley/20014/download/"}]}