“He May Certainly Have Forgotten”: The Processing of Nested Epistemic Expressions

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Semantic theories claim that when a sentence contains two epistemic modals, one modal is within the scope of the other. However, it is possible that, in casual conversation, the scope of nested modals may only be partially processed, and thus, changing the order of the modals might not change interlocutors’ interpretations. This study used a probability judgment test to investigate people’s interpretations of nested epistemic expressions. Results showed that although nested modals yielded probability estimates between values for modals presented individually, the effect of word order was not observed, thus not supporting the scope account of the nested epistemic expressions.

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