Is the monotonicity effect due to covert negation or pragmatic bias?

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Downward entailing quantifiers are more difficult to process than upward entailing ones. What cognitive processes cause this monotonicity effect is, however, a matter of current debate. We test predictions about the underlying processes that are derived from two broad classes of competing theoretical proposals: two-step and pragmatic processing models. To this end, we model data from two web-based verification experiments, in particular, reaction times and accuracy, using the diffusion decision model. Our results support both two-step and pragmatic processing models and indicate two separate sources of the monotonicity effect that map onto different DDM parameters.

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