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The results of the previous experiments in this project suggest that priming of logical representations emerges between universal quantifiers, but this priming is modulated by experimental design. The results indicate that priming between universal quantifiers emerges if the participant is presented with different universal quantifiers in the prime trials, but not if the participant is presented with only one prime quantifier (as suggested by the results of Experiment 1 vs. Experiment 2). Initially, we hypothesized that priming between quantifiers may be dependent on the presence of an experimental condition in which logical representations are primed within the same quantifier. However, the results of Experiment 3 do not confirm this hypothesis: Priming also emerges if the participants are presented with multiple between-quantifier conditions but no within-quantifier condition. Therefore, priming between quantifiers seems to depend on the presence of a diversity of prime quantifiers in the prime trials, but not necessarily on the presence of a within-quantifier condition. In Experiment 4, we will test directly test this hypothesis in another Dutch sentence-picture matching task. This experiment involves a Prime Quantifier Number manipulation. Half of the participants will be presented with only one universal quantifier ('iedere'; ‘every’) in the primes, which is not the same as the universal quantifier in the targets (which contain 'elke'; ‘every’). The other half of the participants will be presented both with primes that contain 'iedere' and primes that contain 'alle' (‘all’). The target sentences in this condition also contain 'elke', so any priming observed in this experiment is priming between quantifiers. We expect that priming is stronger if the participants are presented with primes with both 'iedere' and 'alle' compared to if the participants are only presented with primes with 'iedere': The participants are presented with a diversity of prime quantifiers in the first case but not in the second case (note that this latter condition is essentially a replication of the iedere-elke condition in Experiment 1, where we did not observe priming). |
