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    "pk": 32281,
    "title": "The processing of negatives during discourse comprehension",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "This paper investigates the eflfects of negation in discourse comprehension. The paper is based on the finding by Mac-Donald and Just (1989) that after reading sentences such as <i>Elizabeth bakes some bread but no cookies</i> subjects are faster to respond to the probe <i>bread</i> than to the probe <i>cookies</i>. The question arises whether this differential availability of the relevant concepts is due to negation, or whether it reflects the fact that a bread is present in the described situation, whereas cookies are not. In order to decide between these alternatives two experiments were conducted. In Experiment 1 negated entities that are absent from the described situation were compared with non-negated entities that are present, whereas in Experiment 2 negated entities that are present in the situation were compared with non-negated entities that are absent. The results of the two experiments indicate that both factors, namely 'negation' and 'absence from situation', affect the availability of concepts during discourse processing.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "text": null,
        "url": ""
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    "keywords": [],
    "section": "Long Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4tc558j0",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Barbara",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kaup",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University",
            "department": ""
        }
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "1997-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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