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Lee, Miseon. 2011. Korean Autistic Children's Interpretive Preferences in Quantifier-negation Patterns. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 36-4, 1015-1029. It is well known that a sentence containing both a negative and a quantifier, such as Mina-ka motun cepsi-lul an takk-ass-ta 'Mina didn't wash all the dishes,' is ambiguous: the sentence has either the full set interpretation (i.e., Jane didn't wash any dishes.) or the partitioned set interpretation (i.e., Jane washed some of the dishes.). Previous studies have shown that normally developing Korean L1 children and adult native speakers of Korean strongly prefer the full set interpretation for this pattern. O'Grady (2005, 2008) accounts for this preference by applying the processor-based emergentist account that the syntactic processor tries to minimize processing load and thus prefers the structures involving less processing load. In Korean, the full set interpretation which is generated in a linear manner requires less processing load than the partitioned set interpretation which involves a reanalysis procedure. The finding that Korean autistic children showed the stronger preference for the full set interpretation as compared to normally developing children can be explained by this processor-based account and further implies that the processor can be underpowered in autism. (Hanyang University)