TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Liu, Mingya
A1  - Barthel, Mathias
T1  - Semantics processing of conditional connectives: German wenn ‘if’ versus nur wenn ‘only if’
JF  - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
N2  - In this paper, the meaning and processing of the German conditional connectives (CCs) such as wenn ‘if’ and nur wenn ‘only if’ are investigated. In Experiment 1, participants read short scenarios containing a conditional sentence (i.e., If P, Q.) with wenn/nur wenn ‘if/only if’ and a confirmed or negated antecedent (i.e., P/not-P), and subsequently completed the final sentence about Q (with or without negation). In Experiment 2, participants rated the truth or falsity of the consequent Q after reading a conditional sentence with wenn or nur wenn and a confirmed or negated antecedent (i.e., If P, Q. P/not-P. // Therefore, Q?). Both experiments showed that neither wenn nor nur wenn were interpreted as biconditional CCs. Modus Ponens (If P, Q. P. // Therefore, Q) was validated for wenn, whereas it was not validated in the case of nur wenn. While Denial of the Antecedent (If P, Q. not-P. // Therefore, not-Q.) was validated in the case of nur wenn, it was not validated for wenn. The same method was used to test wenn vs. unter der Bedingung, dass ‘on condition that’ in Experiment 3, and wenn vs. vorausgesetzt, dass ‘provided that’ in Experiment 4. Experiment 5, using Affirmation of the Consequent (If P, Q. Q. // Therefore, P.) to test wenn vs. nur wenn replicated the results of Experiment 2. Taken together, the results show that in German, unter der Bedingung, dass is the most likely candidate of biconditional CCs whereas all others are not biconditional. The findings, in particular of nur wenn not being semantically biconditional, are discussed based on available formal analyses of conditionals.
KW  - conditional connectives
KW  - biconditional
KW  - modus ponens
KW  - affirmation of the consequent
KW  - denial of the antecedent
KW  - Semantik
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - wenn
KW  - Konditionalsatz
KW  - Negation
KW  - Finalsatz
KW  - Konditional
KW  - German
Y1  - 2021
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-110086
SN  - 1573-6555
SS  - 1573-6555
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-021-09812-0
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-021-09812-0
VL  - 50
IS  - 6
SP  - 1337
EP  - 1368
PB  - Springer Nature
CY  - Luxemburg
ER  -