In a visual verification study we investigated how syntactic focus affects the interpretation of quantifiers. We compared the effect of syntactic focus on the truth conditions of sentences with the quantificational adverb only and the superlative quantifier most in Polish. In this language, the scopal properties of most as well as the syntactic construction of the sentence final focus allowed us to predict parallel focus association patterns for both quantifiers. We found that, indeed, syntactic focus is able to guide the attention during visual verification. It is known that prosodic focus is immediately integrated during semantic processing, our study is the first to demonstrate that syntactic focus can facilitate the verification of the truth of a sentence, by guiding attention towards the more salient information in the picture, i.e., the set of focus alternatives.

中文翻译：

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在视觉验证任务中将效果集中在量词域上

在视觉验证研究中，我们调查了句法焦点如何影响量词的解释。我们在波兰语中仅用量化副词和最高级量词比较了句法重点放在句子的真实条件上的效果。在这种语言中，大多数的词首属性以及句子最终焦点的句法构造使我们能够预测两个量词的平行焦点关联模式。我们发现，确实，语法焦点可以引导视觉验证期间的注意力。众所周知，韵律焦点在语义处理过程中立即被整合，我们的研究首次证明句法焦点可以通过引导注意力集中于图片中更突出的信息，从而促进句子真相的验证。