Data

1st Pilot (COLLECTED)

  • Antecedents: 12 belief/desire predicates, chosen from literature to balance expected inferences.

  • Past tense only.

  • 3rd person subject only.

  • ‘that S’ frame only.

  • Consequents: ‘believed that X’ and ‘wanted X to have happened’

  • 4 negation configurations (+/- antecedent & +/- consequent)

  • 96 items x 10 participants = 960 data points.

2nd Pilot (TBC)

  • Antecedents: 12 communicative predicates, chosen from literature to balance expected inferences.

  • Past tense only.

  • 3rd person subject only.

  • Frame(s) TBD.

  • Consequents TBD.

  • 4 negation configurations (+/- antecedent & +/- consequent)

  • 96 items x 10 participants = 960 data points.

Bulk (TBC)

  • Antecedents: 800+ verbs from MegaNegRaising study.

  • Tense, subject, and frames TBD.

  • Consequents TBD.

  • 4 ‘high negation’ configurations plus neg-raising in consequent.

  • Data size TBD.