Negative polarity item (NPI) illusion is a quantification phenomenon.

Wesley Orth, Masaya Yoshida, Shayne Sloggett

2020Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition18 citationsDOI

Abstract

trigger illusion in high and low relative clause positions. This evidence indicates that distribution of NPI illusion is not predicted by existing processing accounts. Future explanations must engage the unique properties of negative quantifiers to account for the distribution of the NPI illusion phenomenon. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

Topics & Concepts

IllusionPolarity (international relations)PhenomenonArtificial intelligencePsychologyCognitive psychologyComputer scienceBiologyEpistemologyPhilosophyGeneticsCellNeurobiology of Language and Bilingualism