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comparative illusion: a standalone construct

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comparativeillusion1 CONSTRUCTComparative illusionWELLWOOD · PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

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Psycholinguistics

tendency to judge as acceptable comparative sentences that have no coherent meaning, such as more people have been to Russia than I have.

In psycholinguistics, comparative illusion refers to tendency to judge as acceptable comparative sentences that have no coherent meaning, such as more people have been to Russia than I have. This meaning comes from Wellwood (2018) in Journal of Semantics.[1]

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  1. Wellwood, A., Pancheva, R., Hacquard, V., & Phillips, C. (2018). The Anatomy of a Comparative Illusion. Journal of Semantics, 35(3), 543-583. https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffy014

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