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In the registered study, we will test whether logical representations specify semantic features of lexicalised universal quantifiers. To gain insight into this question, we will conduct a French structural priming experiment that tests whether the universal quantifiers 'chaque' (‘every’) and 'tous' (‘all’) are represented alike at the logical form (Feiman & Snedeker, 2016; Slim, Lauwers & Hartsuiker, 2023). The experiment tests priming of logical representations in the interpretation of sentences like 'Chaque requin n'a pas attaqué le surfeur' (“Every shark did not attack the surfer”). These sentences contain a universal quantifier and a negator. These operators both take scope, and therefore this sentence corresponds to two possible logical representations: One in which the quantifier takes scope over the negator (the universal-wide reading, in which none of the sharks attacked the surfer), and one in which the negator takes scope over the universal quantifier (the negation-wide reading, in which some but not all sharks attacked the surfer). We will influence the interpretation of these sentences with a priming manipulation. We will vary the quantifier in the prime sentences between 'chaque' (‘every’) and 'tous' (‘all’). The target sentences always contain 'chaque'. If logical representations are sensitive to quantifier-specific lexical content (such as distributivity or scope-taking mechanisms; e.g., Beghelli & Stowell, 1997; Champollion, 2015), we would expect that priming only emerges in case prime and target share the same quantifier words. If, on the other hand, logical representations abstract away from the combinatorial properties of specific quantifiers, priming is expected to emerge both between and within quantifiers. Here, we will register our experimental plan. The analysis plan will be added later (before we will start our analyses). |
