Availability of Alternatives and the Processing of Scalar Implicatures: A Visual World Eye-tracking Study

Autor/inn/en	Degen, Judith; Tanenhaus, Michael K.
Titel	Availability of Alternatives and the Processing of Scalar Implicatures: A Visual World Eye-tracking Study
Quelle	In: Cognitive Science, 40 (2016) 1, S.172-201 (30 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0364-0213
DOI	10.1111/cogs.12227
Schlagwörter	Eye Movements; Experiments; Visual Stimuli; Language Processing; Pragmatics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Augenbewegung; Erprobung; Sprachverarbeitung; Pragmalinguistik
Abstract	Two visual world experiments investigated the processing of the implicature associated with "some" using a "gumball paradigm." On each trial, participants saw an image of a gumball machine with an upper chamber with orange and blue gumballs and an empty lower chamber. Gumballs dropped to the lower chamber, creating a contrast between a partitioned set of gumballs of one color and an unpartitioned set of the other. Participants then evaluated spoken statements, such as "You got some of the blue gumballs." Experiment 1 investigated the time course of the pragmatic enrichment from "some" to "not all" when the only utterance alternatives available to refer to the different sets were "some" and "all." In Experiment 2, the number terms "two," "three," "four," and "five" were also included in the set of alternatives. Scalar implicatures were delayed relative to the interpretation of literal statements with all only when number terms were available. The results are interpreted as evidence for a constraint-based account of scalar implicature processing. (As Provided).
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