The search for truth: Appositives weigh in
The search for truth: Appositives weigh in
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寻找真理：同位语的作用
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2019
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通讯作者：
Amanda Rysling
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M. Kroll;Amanda Rysling
同位语对所包含句子的语义和语用贡献是一个持续争论的话题。虽然一维语义帐户提出，同位贡献他们的真值条件，其包含的句子，多维帐户预测，他们没有。在三个实验中，我们直接比较了含有同位词的句子和含有连词的句子的真实性判断。我们的研究结果提供了一个方法论和理论观点。首先，我们表明，没有结论的真值条件的贡献，同位可以从实验工作中得出，没有进一步的调查参与者如何提供复杂的句子的真值判断。其次，我们发现，虽然同位出现贡献的真值，其包含的句子，参与者是高度敏感的任务功能时，他们计算的真值的句子与同位，也至关重要的是，与连接词。具体来说，我们表明，这两个句子含有同位和那些含有连接词可以判断为真，即使同位或一个连接词是明显的假。我们的结论是，这是不可能的，这些结果反映语义判断，并建议他们反映真理，只有在言语行为水平。
The semantic and pragmatic contribution of appositives to their containing sentence is a subject of continuing debate. While unidimensional semantic accounts propose that appositives contribute their truth conditions to their containing sentence, multidimensional accounts predict that they do not. In three experiments, we directly compared judgments of the truth of sentences containing appositives and sentences containing conjunctions. Our findings contribute both a method- ological and a theoretical point. First, we show that no conclusions about the truth-conditional contributions of appositives can be drawn from experimental work without further investigation of how participants provide truth value judgments for complex sentences. Second, we show that while appositives appear to contribute truth values to their containing sentences, participants are highly sensitive to task features when they compute the truth value of sentences with appositives and also, crucially, with conjunctions. Specifically, we show that both sentences containing appositives and those containing conjunctions can be judged true even when the appositive or one conjunct is patently false. We conclude that it is unlikely that these results reflect semantic judgments, and suggest that they reflect truth only at the speech-act level.