Samira Ghaffarzadeh
List of John Benjamins publications in which Samira Ghaffarzadeh is involved.
Article
2023 On comprehending adjectival antonyms and negation: Revisiting negation as mitigation in Persian Pragmatics & Cognition 30:2, pp. 296–329 | Article
This study explores the extent to which comprehending negated antonyms in Persian involves the mitigation effect, whereby a negated word means less than its antonym. In two mouse-tracking experiments, participants rated sentences containing negated/non-negated scalar (e.g., tall-short) and… read more
