This article reports the results from an ERP study on the processing of anaphoric reference to quantifying expressions in Swedish (e.g. Many students attended the lecture and that they were present was noted). Negative quantifiers (e.g. few) differ from positive quantifiers (e.g. many), in allowing anaphoric expressions to target either the ref(erence) set ('students attending the lecture') or the comp(lement) set ('students not attending the lecture'), while positive quantifiers only allow Refset continuations. Results from the present study show that negative quantifiers give rise to an enhanced frontal negativity at the anaphoric pronoun in the negative condition, relative to positive quantifiers. At the critical word disambiguating between a Refset and Compset reading, we found P600 effects for the anomalous relative to the non-anomalous conditions. We interpret the frontal negativity found with negative quantifiers as an indication of referential ambiguity interfering in the processing of anaphoric reference.

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设置焦点和照应参考：一项 ERP 研究

本文报告了一项 ERP 研究的结果，该研究涉及处理瑞典语量化表达的回指参考（例如，许多学生参加了讲座并注意到他们在场）。负量词（例如很少）与正量词（例如很多）不同，它允许照应表达针对 ref(erence) 集（“参加讲座的学生”）或 comp（lement）集（“不参加讲座的学生”） ')，而正量词只允许 Refset 延续。本研究的结果表明，相对于正量词，负量词在负条件下的照应代词处产生增强的正面负性。在 Refset 和 Compset 读数之间消除歧义的关键词，我们发现异常相对于非异常条件的 P600 效应。我们将用否定量词发现的正面否定解释为指示歧义干扰回指处理的指示。