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Category: Methods and Measures

Description: Experimental materials used in Djärv (2019) designed to investigate the lexical and pragmatic licensing conditions of Main Clause Syntax. The stimuli consists of 40 critical items (20 sentences embedded under 20 attitude verbs from 5 verb classes, +/- negation), plus fillers and controls. (E.g. "Anna (didn't) say/believe/discover that Bill left town."). The materials are designed to test: (i) the strength of 3 different assertive inferences for the embedded proposition p (discourse novelty of p, speaker commitment to p, attitude holder commitment to p); (ii) the acceptability of 4 different types of Main Clause Syntax (embedded V2, topicalization, speech act adverbs, scene setting adverbs) and unmarked control sentences. The experiments are implemented using PennController: https://osf.io/e8npk/. Warning: this site is still under construction, so please be aware of potential bugs. Before using these materials, please consult Djärv (2019; Chapter 3.2). If you would like to use this material, please cite the current OSF project, including the DOI, as well as Djärv (2019): Djärv, Kajsa. 2019. "Factive and Assertive Attitude Reports." PhD Thesis. University of Pennsylvania. Djärv, Kajsa. 2019. “Assertion and Presuppositions in Attitude Reports and Main Clause Syntax.” OSF. September 16. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/NSM89. The dissertation is available on: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/3645/