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https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-5371(74)80005-8
Copy DOIPublication Date: Oct 1, 1974 | |
Citations: 180 |
Frequency of perceptual errors as a function of differential presupposition in descriptive sentences was measured. In Experiment I, subjects heard a cleft or pseudocleft sentence prior to tachistoscopic presentation of a picture in which the presupposed proposition or the focused proposition was misrepresented. The task was to decide if the sentence correctly described the picture. Results indicated that more errors occurred when the misrepresentation involved the presupposition than when it involved the focused proposition. Experiment II was conducted to determine if the frequency of errors was a function of the type of surface structure employed to mark the presupposition. Results indicated that several different surface structure features of English, employed in combination, increase the presuppositional strength of the sentence.
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