On the Analysis of Scope Ambiguities in Comparative Constructions: Converging Evidence from Real-Time Sentence Processing and Offline Data. Breakstone, M. Y., Cremers, A., Fox, D., & Hackl, M. In Proceedings of SALT, volume 21, pages 712–731, 2012.
On the Analysis of Scope Ambiguities in Comparative Constructions: Converging Evidence from Real-Time Sentence Processing and Offline Data [link]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
This paper compares two accounts of an ambiguity that arises when a comparative phrase containing an exactly differential is embedded under an intensional operator (Heim 2000). Under one account, the comparative phrase is responsible for the ambiguity (the er-scope theory), and, under the other, the ambiguity is attributed to the exactly phrase (the exactly-scope theory). We present converging evidence from the distribution of de re and de dicto readings and real time sentence processing that supports the er-scope theory. Since the er-scope theory presupposes a quantificational analysis of the comparative, such an analysis is ipso facto supported by our results.
@inproceedings{Breakstone:2012,
	abstract = {This paper compares two accounts of an ambiguity that arises when a comparative phrase containing an exactly differential is embedded under an intensional operator (Heim 2000). Under one account, the comparative phrase is responsible for the ambiguity (the er-scope theory), and, under the other, the ambiguity is attributed to the exactly phrase (the exactly-scope theory). We present converging evidence from the distribution of de re and de dicto readings and real time sentence processing that supports the er-scope theory. Since the er-scope theory presupposes a quantificational analysis of the comparative, such an analysis is ipso facto supported by our results.},
	author = {Breakstone, Micha Yochanan and Cremers, Alexandre and Fox, Danny and Hackl, Martin},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of SALT},
	date-added = {2013-02-13 11:34:09 +0000},
	date-modified = {2019-02-02 15:16:54 +0100},
	pages = {712--731},
	title = {On the Analysis of Scope Ambiguities in Comparative Constructions: Converging Evidence from Real-Time Sentence Processing and Offline Data},
	url_paper = {https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/SALT/article/download/2609/2356},
	volume = {21},
	year = {2012}}

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