{"pk":49945,"title":"Neglect zero: evidence from priming across constructions","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Recent studies use semantic structural priming to show that various cases of linguistic strengthening happen through a common mechanism: generation of implicatures through alternative-based (scalar) reasoning. In this paper, we used priming to investigate another group of cases, where strengthening is postulated to follow from the tendency to systematically neglect structures that verify a sentence by virtue of an empty configuration (neglect-zero): empty-set quantifiers ('at most/fewer than') and disjunction under a universal quantifier. We report data indicating semantic priming between these two structures, but not between them and scalar 'some'. We propose that 1. there is a common mechanism in use for strengthening constructions postulated to follow from the neglect-zero tendency, and that 2. this mechanism is different from the one involved in alternative-based reasoning.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Linguistics; Psychology; Language and thought; Pragmatics; Quantitative Behavior"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/36w6x7z9","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Tomasz","middle_name":"","last_name":"Klochowicz","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Amsterdam","department":""},{"first_name":"Fabian","middle_name":"","last_name":"Schlotterbeck","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of TŸbingen","department":""},{"first_name":"Sonia","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ramotowska","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Amsterdam","department":""},{"first_name":"Oliver","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bott","name_suffix":"","institution":"Bielefeld University","department":""},{"first_name":"Maria","middle_name":"","last_name":"Aloni","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Amsterdam","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T19:00:00+01:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49945/galley/37907/download/"}]}