Selecting Presuppositions in Conditional Clauses. Results from a Psycholinguistic Experiment.

In this paper, we propose an experiment concerning the presupposition selection in conditional sentences containing a presupposition trigger in the consequent. Many theories claim that sentences like if p, qq’ – where q is the presupposition of the assertive component q’ – have unconditional presupp...

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Main Authors: Filippo eDomaneschi, Elena eCarrea, Carlo ePenco, Alberto eGreco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02026/full