Experimental Perspectives on Presuppositions

This volume brings together some of the most recent developments in the field of experimental pragmatics, specifically empirical approaches to theoretical issues in presupposition theory. It includes studies of the online processing of presupposed content; investigations of the interpretive properti...

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Weitere Verfasser: Schwarz, Florian (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Schriftenreihe:Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, 45
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1. Introduction: Presuppositions in Context - Theoretical Issues and Experimental Perspectives
  • 2. Presupposition Processing and Accommodation: An Experiment on wieder ('again') and Consequences for Other Triggers
  • 3. Resolving Temporary Referential Ambiguity using Presupposed Content
  • 4. Presuppositions vs. Asserted Content in Online Processing
  • 5. Presupposition Satisfaction, Locality and Discourse Constituency
  • 6. A Cross-linguistic Study of the Non-at-issueness of Exhaustive Inferences
  • 7. A Cross-linguistic Study on Information Back grounding and Presupposition Projection
  • 8. Weak and Strong Triggers
  • 9. Symmetry and Incrementality in Conditionals
  • 10. An Experimental Comparison between Presuppositions and Indirect Scalar Implicatures
  • 11. Three-year-olds' Understanding of know and think.