Answering question about negative conditionals  

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Wright, P. ; Hull, A. J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Memory and Language (Full Text) vol. 25 no. 6 (Dec. 1986), page 691-709.
Fulltext: 25_06_Wright_Hull.pdf (1.69MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JML/25 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Two studies explored readers' mental representations of declarative sentences containing UNLESS and IF NOT. Errors and reading times showed that people represented IF NOT as a positive action and negative condition. Performance with IF NOT was unaffected by the order of condition and action in the text but was better if subsequent information referred to the condition rather than to the action. Three rules governing readers' representations are proposed to account for performance with IF NOT. An additional rule is needed for UNLESS, which was sometimes represented as a negative action and positive condition. Choice of representation for UNLESS varied with the writer's order of mentioning action and condition information.

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