Alexandropoulou, Stavroula;
Erbach, Kurt;
Breheny, Richard;
Mayr, Clemens;
Sudo, Yasutada;
Romoli, Jacopo;
(2024)
Non-maximality effects in gestural plural predication.
In: Carcassi, Fausto and Johnson, Tamar and Brinck Knudstorp, Søren and Domínguez Parrado, Sabina and Rivas Robledo, Pablo and Sbardolini, Giorgio, (eds.)
Proceedings of the 24th Amsterdam Colloquium.
Amsterdam Colloquium 2024: Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Abstract
The present paper investigates homogeneity and non-maximality of novel pro-speech gestures. Our experiment adopts and refines Tieu, Schlenker, and Chemla’s (2019) experimental design and also incorporate Romoli et al.’s (2024) idea of context manipulation. The results indicate not only that homogeneity inferences can arise from unfamiliar gestures but also that non-maximality triggered by gestural means is contextually modulated and is more robustly so in positive than in negative sentences. In light of Romoli et al.’s (2024) observation for plural definites, these findings point to the possibility that the mechanism responsible for homogeneity and non-maximality extends beyond conventionalized linguistic expressions to include unfamiliar gestures, aligning with the view that homogeneity and non-maximality emerge from productive semantic and pragmatic processes.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Non-maximality effects in gestural plural predication |
| Event: | 24th Amsterdam Colloquium |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://platform.openjournals.nl/PAC/index |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| 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/10207112 |
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