Pragmatic Aspects of Negation in Sentence Evaluation and Completion Tasks
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5267826 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth R Cornish (East Sussex County Council, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 505-511 |
| Publication date | 1971-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1269 • E-ISSN: 2044-8295 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1971.tb02065.x |
| OpenAlex | W1984459703 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 48 |
The appropriateness of a sentence such as 'The circle is not all red' was examined in relation to circles in which the proportion of red was varied. Expt. I showed that subjects took longest to evaluate this sentence when the circle contained only a small proportion of red. Expt. II showed that the tendency to complete an incomplete sentence with 'red', and to consider such a completion as appropriate, increased with the proportion of red in the circle. These results suggest that the appropriateness of a negative copulative sentence is frequently a function of a correlated affirmative presupposition
Function (biology) · Linguistics · Negation · Presupposition · Sentence · Sentence completion tests · Advanced Algebra and Logic · Categorization, perception, and language · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Negation and Opposition
Expletive Negation
Negation and First Language Acquisition
Quantitative Studies of the Use of Negative (Dependent) Expressions
Intervention Effects with Negation
Negation and Alternatives
The Typology of Negation
Negation in L2 Acquisition and Beyond
Negation and the Brain
Negation and Constituent Ordering
The Expression of Negation in Sign Languages
The Possible Positioning of Negation
Form and Function of Negative, Tag, and Rhetorical Questions
The Neurology of Negation
Negative Fragment Answers
Metalinguistic Negation
Negative Quantifiers
Evolutionary Precursors of Negation in Non-Human Reasoning
Modals and Negation
Understanding Negation
Negation in Non-Standard Varieties
Evolution of Negative Dependencies
Negation and Presupposition
Negation, Prosody, and Gesture
Calculating the Scope of Negation
Neg-raising
Negative Polarity Illusions
Affixal Negation
The Morpho-Syntactic Nature of the Negative Marker
Individual Differences in Processing of Negative Operators
Double Negation Readings
Negative Concord and the Nature of Negative Concord Items
The Negative Cycle and Beyond
Types of Negation
Negation in Event Semantics
The Neurobiology of Lexical and Sentential Negation
Negative Predicates
Negative Polarity Items
The Role of Pragmatics in Negation Change
Cognitive Precursors of Negation in Preverbal Infants
Minimizers and Maximizers as Different Types of Polarity Items
Denial
The Oxford Handbook of Negation
The Role of Alternatives in Language
Following negative search instructions
The impact of rereading on older adults’ comprehension and metacomprehension of negative text
Comprehension and metacomprehension of negated text
The power of negation in English
| Citations per year | 1.71 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1998 - 2024 (27) |
| Highly cited | No |