The interpretation of indicative and subjunctive concessives.
Acta Psychol (Amst)
; 134(2): 245-52, 2010 Jun.
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| ID: mdl-20219182
ABSTRACT
Using a priming paradigm in the context of a reading comprehension task, the possibilities that people keep in mind in order to understand indicative and subjunctive concessive sentences were examined and compared to those from factual and counterfactual 'if A, not-B' conditionals. The length of time it took people to read conjunctive descriptions (i.e., A and B, A and not-B, not-A and B, not-A and not-B) after they had been primed by the different types of linguistic form was measured. The results suggest that, whereas indicative 'even though' concessives and 'if, not' conditionals are understood by keeping in mind just a single possibility ('A and B' and 'A and not-B', respectively), the initial representations of subjunctive 'even if' concessive-conditionals and 'if, not' counterfactuals are compatible with a multiple-model representation. The implications of these results are discussed within the mental models framework.
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Compreensão
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Adolescent
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Adult
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Humans
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Middle aged
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En
Revista:
Acta Psychol (Amst)
Ano de publicação:
2010
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Article
País de afiliação:
Espanha