De Zilva, Carynna (2020) Cumulative interpretations in English and Dutch. Bachelor's Thesis, Artificial Intelligence.
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Abstract
This paper investigates a number of questions with respect to cumulative readings in order to determine if cumulative readings are treated similarly to collective readings. We conducted a series of experiments in order to answer them. First, to determine if the acceptability of the distributive marker each was sensitive to verb type, a truth value judgment task was conducted in Dutch. We found that cumulative interpretations were similar to collective interpretations in that they were accepted more with independent verbs. The second question to answer was whether there was a significant difference in acceptance rate for cumulative interpretations with each between Dutch and English. By replicating the experiment in English, the results showed no difference in acceptance rates between the two languages. Furthermore, we investigated if the Dutch elke was more similar to English every than the English each as it’s occasionally claimed to be. The results showed that this appears to be true. Finally, we explored how cumulative and collective interpretations might differ in acceptability by conducting an acceptability judgment task and self paced reading task to judge complexity through response time.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor's Thesis) |
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| Supervisor name: | Spenader, J.K. and Koster, A.M.B. de |
| Degree programme: | Artificial Intelligence |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Sep 2020 12:01 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Sep 2020 12:01 |
| URI: | https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/23430 |
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