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We investigated the processing of sentences with the German quantifier 'meisten' (‘most’) to test whether readers’ expectations for upcoming discourse are affected by Optional Focus Association (Beaver & Clark 2008). A sentence with 'meisten' can receive different interpretations depending on the presence of focus, crucially, though, focus is not required for interpretation (Heim 1999, Hackl 2009). Our results indicate that the optional focus associator 'meisten' triggers an expectation for upcoming focus, thus facilitating the processing of the contrast (“and not…”), as indicated by both Reading Times and ERPs. We conclude that the processor simultaneously considers several focus structures compatible with the context.
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