Facts in counterfactuals-cognitive representations of Chinese counterfactuals

Abstract How do people represent counterfactuals? As languages differ in expressibility of counterfactuals—some languages employ explicit grammatical marking for counterfactuals while others do not—are some speakers’ representations of counterfactuals less explicit? Prior studies examining this ques...

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Main Authors: Yufei Ren, Gang Cui, Stella Christie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-12-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-49775-x