• Speech Sciences
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.259-273
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• 2001

This study investigates the accentual realization of negation denying the presupposition of a previous utterance compared with that of a general negation. Specifically we study what types and positions of accent are realized in the speech of Korean speakers using English as a second language as well as English native speakers. Gussenhoven (1983) and Bolinger (1985, 1986) suggested that when presupposition of previous utterances is denied through negation, focal accent is assigned to empty (functional) words, rather than negative morphemes. The results of this study, however, show that negation sentences denying presupposition have accents not only on empty (functional) words but also on content words. Almost every English native speaker places an H* accent on the negative morphemes themselves (not, no, nothing, etc.) in general negation, as well as on the other lexical items-verbs and prepositions in our data-in negations denying presuppositions. On the other hand, Korean speakers hardly distinguish between the two kinds of negation sentences, unlike native speakers through accentual differences. Rather, they give accent an every content word, including the negative morphemes in both general negations and negations denying presuppositions. Therefore, the results of this study do not absolutely support the previous studies on the denial of presupposition.

• Language and Information
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.127-153
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• 2015

Negative expressions have their semantic function of classical negation as a pure reverser of truth-values. They also have various kin and foes of their pragmatic functions such as association of bad feelings (Russell 1948), emphasis/attenuation by negative polarity items, sarcasm, and metalinguistic negation (MN). This paper explores how MN and descriptive negation (DN) differ and whether the difference creates pragmatic ambiguity (Horn 1987) or reflects merely contextual variations of one logical negation (Carston 1996). To test the debate, this paper treats certain degree modifiers licensed exclusively by MN as in Mia-ka POTHONG/Yekan yeppu-n key an-i-a [external neg] (vs. modifier NPIs like cenhye 'at all', licensed only by DN) and contrasts them with bad utterances of the MN modifiers in [short form neg] sentences (not for MN) such as Mia-ka POTHONG an yeppu-e. The ERP results of the well-formed vs. ill-formed conditions evoked the N400 at Cz in written stimuli and the N400 near the center on both hemispheres in spoken stimuli. The results suggest that the anomalies are meaning-related and tend to support the pragmatic ambiguity.

• English Language & Literature Teaching
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.91-107
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• 2003

Although the language of Geoffrey Chaucer as part of late Middle English has been discussed by many studies, among which David Burnley (1983) seems to be most remarkable, some aspects of Chaucer's language still need to be better illuminated for a more thorough understanding of not only Chaucer's work and language but also the English language in the late Middle English period. This paper examines the English negation of Chaucer's language, shown especially in his Canterbury Tales, and explains how negation is used in his work, focusing on the three different types of sentence negation and the uses of or and and in the scope of negation.

• Korean Journal of Logic
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.1-23
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• 2007

Dunn investigated algebras and semantics for negations in non-classical logics. This paper extends his investigation to dual negations, more exactly to duals to the negations in Dunn [3, 5]. I first survey and systematize the algebras of dual negations, i.e., (self-dual) subminimal negation, dual Galois negations, dual minimal negation, wB (or dual intuitionistic) negation, (self-dual) De Morgan negation, and (self-dual) ortho negation, based on partially ordered sets. I next provide dual-perp semantics for these (dual) negations. I finally give representations for them by using dual-perp semantics.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.469-499
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• 2016

The present study investigated the cognitive mechanism underlying online processing of Korean syntactic (for example, A bed/a clock belongs to/doesn't belong to the furniture "침대는/시계는 가구에 속한다/속하지 않는다") and lexical negation (for example, A tiger/a butterfly has/doesn't have a tail "호랑이는/나비는 꼬리가 있다/없다") using an ERP(Event-related potentials) technique and a truth-value verification task. 23 Korean native speakers were employed for the whole experiment and 15's brain responses (out of 23) were recorded for the ERP analysis. The behavioral results (i.e. verification task scores) show that there is universal pattern of the accuracy and response time for verification process: True-Affirmative (high accuracy and short latency) > False-Affirmative > False-Negated > True-Negated. However, the components (early N400 & P600) reflecting the immediate processing of a negation operator were observed only in lexical negation. Moreover, the ERP patterns reflecting an effect of truth value were not identical: N400 effect was observed in the true condition compared to the false condition in the lexically negated sentences, whereas Positivity effect (like early P600) was observed in the false condition compared to the true condition in the syntactically negated sentences. In conclusion, the form and location of negation operator varied by languages and negation types influences the strategy and pattern of online negation processing, however, the final representation resulting from different computational processing of negation appears to be language universal and is not directly affected by negation types.

• Language and Information
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.47-57
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• 2009

It has been observed that not all negative polarity items (NPIs) are licensed in the same negative contexts, and different NPIs may be licensed by different negative expressions. This shows that Ladusaw's (1979) downward entailment is not precise enough to account for the distributional patterns of NPIs (van der Wouden, 1997; van der Wouden and Zwarts, 1993; Zwarts, 1986, among others). One well-known attempt to deal with this issue is to divide negative expressions into several subtypes. Using boolean semantics, Zwarts (1986; 1998) distinguishes three kinds of downward entailing licensors and accounts for heterogeneous NPI-licensing conditions by means of the semantic strength of negative expressions. This approach has been adopted to define Korean negation (Nam, 1994; Chung, 1993; Chung, 1997; Hwang, 2009). In this paper, however, we argue that the boolean semantic approach for negation is not adequate in characterizing the properties of Korean negative expressions and explaining the contexts of licensing Korean NPIs.

• Koreanishche Zeitschrift fur Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft
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• v.2
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• pp.149-163
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• 2000

Die Negation im Deutschen wird in der Tradition, besonders aus dem syntaktischen Aspekt, in zwei verschiedenen Arten unterschieden: Sondemegation(Wortnegation oder Konstituentennegation) vs. Satznegation. Demzufolge bei der Satznegation bezieht sich das Negationswort auf die gesamte Aussage, d.h. die vom gesamten Satz $ausgedr\"{u}ckten$ Propositionskomplexe und bei der Sondernegation auf Teile des gesamten Satzes. Diese Unterscheidung wird hauptsachlich durch die Stellungsmoglichkeiten von 'nicht' $begr\"{u}ndet$. Sie wird aus kommunikativ orientierten Aspekten problematisiert. Solche $Ans\"{a}tze$ gehen davon aus, $da{\ss}$ die Negation eine Blockierungsoperation bei der Bearbeitung bereits vorhandener Kenntnisse ist. Aus kommunikativ orientierten Aspekten wird nur bei der Satznegation von 'Negierung' gesprochen, und bei der Sondernegation liegt nur eine negierte Teilstruktur vor, die den Chakrakter der Affirmierung des Gesamtsatzes zwar modifiziert, aber nicht aufhebt. Als $vorla\"{u}figes$ Fazit stellt man fest, $da{\ss}$ die Beschreibung der Negation aus kommunikativ-pragmatischen Sichten die Unterscheidung Satznegation/Sondernegation nicht $\"{u}berfl\"{u}ssig$ macht. Um die Negation besser zu ermitteln, werden nicht nur unterschiedliche syntaktische $Stellungsm\"{o}glichkeiten$ von 'nicht' $ber\"{u}cksichtigen$, sondern auch die im Satz verschieden gegebene Intonation und auch kommunikative $Handlungszusammenh\"{a}nge$.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.8B
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• pp.745-756
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• 2006

The general packet filtering system using TCAM has some limitations such as range and negation rules filtering, so this paper proposes efficient searching schemes than existing methods. CRG(Converting Range rules using Gray code) algorithm, in the case of range rules, that takes advantage of the gray code and TCAM characteristics to save a number of TCAM entries is proposed, and a nTCAM(TCAM with negation) architecture for negation rules is proposed, implemented using a FPGA design tool, and verified through the wave simulation. According to the simulation with the SNORT rules, the CRG algorithm and nTCAM save TCAM entries about 93% in IPv4 and 98% in IPv6 than the existing method.

• Language and Information
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.1-20
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• 2006

This paper is concerned with the distribution and interpretation of yekan and its cognates. Syntactically they require negation, but semantically the sentences in which they occur are positive ones that make monotone increasing inferences possible. This syntax-semantics discrepancy can be best accounted for by showing that yekan and its cousins must be strictly c-commanded by metalinguistic negation at the surface structure and that the positive meaning of the sentences they are part of is derived from the cancellation of the pragmatic upper-bounding implicatum associated with them. These also enable us to explain why they do not occur in the environments where typical NPIs do and why only certain forms of negation license them.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.318-324
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• 2020

The present study was conducted to investigate the influences of emotion priming and the number of negation words on the task of sentential predicate reasoning in groups with or without anxiety symptoms. 3 types of primed emotions and 2 types of stimulus and 3 conditions of negation words were used as a within-subject variable. The subjects were instructed to make facial expressions that match the directions, and were asked to choose the correct answer from the given examples. Mixed repeated measured ANOVA analyses on reaction time first showed main effects for the variables of emotion, stimulus, number of negation words and anxiety level, and the interaction effects for the negation words x anxiety combination. These results are presumably suggested to reflect that externally intervening emotion works on language comprehension in a way that anxiety could delay task processing speed regardless of the emotion and stimulus type, meanwhile the number of negation words can slower language processing only in a anxiety group. Implications and limitations were discussed for the future work.