Meer in this sequence of utterances is ambiguous between an NPI reading and a quantitative meaning. Since the diary data give no information about the context, the ambiguity has to be solved on the basis of these utterances alone. Unfortunately, the crucial information needed to decide this issue is hidden in unintelligible speech, indicated by xxx in the last utterance. If xxx is a direct object, then it is most likely that this utterance contains NPI-meer.

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