Elementary sentences containing the quantificational determiner some seem to be ambiguous between a ‘weak’ existential meaning ∃ and a ‘strengthened’ some but not all meaning ∃+. The strengthened meaning is commonly assumed to be the output of a general enrichment mechanism, call it G (for ‘global’), that applies to the weak meaning of the sentence: G(∃) = ∃+. The application of G has been shown to come with a processing cost (e.g., Bott and Noveck 2004). We used a self-paced reading task together with offline comprehension questions to investigate the interpretation of sentences containing some when embedded inside a disjunction, a position that G cannot access. Our findings suggest (i) that the strengthened meaning ∃+ is available in embedded positions, suggesting that a mechanism of local strengthening L must be available: L(∃) = ∃+, (ii) that local enrichment can be facilitated by global pragmatic pressures (Chierchia et al. 2008, Mayr and Romoli 2014), (iii) that subjects can be quickly trained to systematically prefer one of G or L to the other, (iv) that application of L, like the application of G, comes with a processing cost. We highlight consequences of our findings for debates about the characterization of enrichment mechanisms, focussing on the relation between G and L. ∗We thank Amir Anvari, Danny Fox, Lyn Frazier, Ted Gibson, Roni Katzir, Jacopo Romoli, Benjamin Spector, Ida Toivonen, Shravan Vasishth, Ken Wexler, and audiences at MIT, XPrag 2013, AMLaP 2014, and TOM 6 at McGill University. The paper has improved thanks to helpful comments from three anonymous reviewers for Journal of Semantics, and the editor Bernhard Schwarz. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n.313610 and was supported by ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02 PSL* and ANR-10-LABX-0087 IEC, as well as by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, grant number 435-2012-1573.

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在全球务实压力下培训和确定当地标量的丰富度

包含量化确定词的基本句子在“弱”的存在意义∃和“加强”的某些但并非全部意义∃+之间似乎是模棱两可的。通常认为强化含义是一般充实机制的输出，称其为G（表示“全局”），适用于句子的弱含义：G（∃）=∃+。G的应用已显示出加工成本（例如Bott和Noveck 2004）。我们使用了自定进度的阅读任务以及离线理解问题，以调查包含在分词（G无法访问的位置）中的句子的解释。我们的发现表明（i）嵌入位置中存在增强的含义∃+，这表明必须具有局部增强L的机制：L（∃）=∃+，（ii）全球务实的压力可以促进局部富集（Chierchia等人2008，Mayr和Romoli 2014），（iii）可以快速训练受试者系统地偏爱G或L中的一个，（iv）与G的应用一样，L的应用也会带来处理成本。我们将重点放在研究富集机制表征的辩论中，重点关注G和L之间的关系。∗我们感谢Amir Anvari，Danny Fox，Lyn Frazier，Ted Gibson，Roni Katzir，Jacopo Romoli，Benjamin Spector，Ida Toivonen ，Shravan Vasishth，Ken​​ Wexler，以及MIT，XPrag 2013，AMLaP 2014和麦吉尔大学TOM 6的观众。得益于来自《语义学杂志》的三位匿名审稿人和编辑Bernhard Schwarz的有益评论，本文得到了改善。