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Another look at the online processing of scalar inferences: an investigation of conflicting findings from visual-world eye-tracking studies

Sun, C; Breheny, R; (2019) Another look at the online processing of scalar inferences: an investigation of conflicting findings from visual-world eye-tracking studies. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 10.1080/23273798.2019.1678759. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

Previous psycholinguistic studies that compared the time course of interpretation for pragmatic some and literal all have returned mixed results. In particular, a delayed pragmatic some has been found in some studies but not in others. We explain these conflicting findings in terms of factors which are independent of incremental semantic/pragmatic interpretation. Two offline experiments provide evidence of the effect of these factors. Three visual-world studies showed that they influence participants’ eye movements in online comprehension. We introduce a new measure for investigating the time course of scalar inference. This new measure allows us to reason about the time course question based on the difference in verification procedures between numbers and quantifiers. Results from our visual-world studies suggest that deriving the pragmatic interpretation is not delayed relative to the semantic interpretation.

Type: Article
Title: Another look at the online processing of scalar inferences: an investigation of conflicting findings from visual-world eye-tracking studies
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2019.1678759
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2019.1678759
Language: English
Additional information: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Science & Technology, Social Sciences, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology, Behavioral Sciences, Linguistics, Psychology, Experimental, Psychology, Pragmatics, scalar inference, time course, eye-movements, visual-world paradigm, LANGUAGE, IMPLICATURES, MEDIATION, LISTENERS, MOVEMENTS, PROSODY
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Linguistics
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10085506
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