标量隐含处理的极性和速度

Scalar implicatures (SIs) such as the inference from 'some' to 'some but not all' are known to vary in processing cost. According to the Polarity Hypothesis (van Tiel et al., 2019; van Tiel & Pankratz, 2021), this cost depends on the polarity of the scalar term: SIs from positively polar expressions (e.g., 'some' implicating 'some but not all') are expected to be slower to compute than literal interpretations, while the reverse should hold for SIs from negatively polar expressions, sometimes referred to as indirect SIs (e.g., 'not all' implicating 'not all but some'). We tested this prediction