Irony as a Test of the Presupposition-Denial Account: An ERP Study

Filik, Ruth; Ingram, Joanne; Moxey, Linda M.; Leuthold, Hartmut

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“…Recent studies tested the effect of quantifiers on the interpretation of plural pronouns (Filik et al, 2021;Heinat, & Klingvall, 2020;Ingram & Ferguson, 2018;Upadhyay et al, 2019).…”

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Corpus evidence suggests that in contexts in which the presence of multiple antecedents might favour plural reference, the disadvantage observed for singular reference may disappear if the potential antecedents are combined in a group-like plural entity. We examined the relative salience of antecedents in conditions where the context either made a group interpretation available (i.e., mereological entity) (e.g., The engineer hooked up the engine to the boxcar…, where group = train), or not (e.g., The engineer detached the engine from the boxcar…). Results from three experiments in which participants were asked to identify referents for singular versus plural pronouns (Experiment 1), to confirm the referents of pronouns in a sentence completion task (Experiment 2), and to provide paraphrases for given texts (Experiment 3), collectively provided evidence that the creation of a group makes that entity (i) a possible referent for singular anaphoric reference and (ii) more salient than its constituents.

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“…Recent studies tested the effect of quantifiers on the interpretation of plural pronouns (Filik et al, 2021;Heinat, & Klingvall, 2020;Ingram & Ferguson, 2018;Upadhyay et al, 2019).…”

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The Processing of Negation and Polarity: An Overview

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Liu

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J Psycholinguist Res

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Negation is a universal component of human language; polarity sensitivity (i.e., lexical distributional constraints in relation to negation) is arguably so while being pervasive across languages. Negation has long been a field of inquiry in psychological theories and experiments of reasoning, which inspired many follow-up studies of negation and negation-related phenomena in psycholinguistics. In generative theoretical linguistics, negation and polarity sensitivity have been extensively studied, as the related phenomena are situated at the interfaces of syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and are thus extremely revealing about the architecture of grammar. With the now long tradition of research on negation and polarity in psychology and psycholinguistics, and the emerging field of experimental semantics and pragmatics, a multitude of interests and experimental paradigms have emerged which call for re-evaluations and further development and integration. This special issue contains a collection of 16 research articles on the processing of negation and negation-related phenomena including polarity items, questions, conditionals, and irony, using a combination of behavioral (e.g., rating, reading, eye-tracking and sentence completion) and neuroimaging techniques (e.g., EEG). They showcase the processing of negation and polarity with or without context, in various languages and across different populations (adults, typically developing and ADHD children). The integration of multiple theoretical and empirical perspectives in this collection provides new insights, methodological advances and directions for future research.

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Verbal Irony Processing

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2023

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Ironic language is a salient reminder that speakers of all languages do not always mean what they say. While ironic language has captured the attention of theorists and scholars for centuries, it is only since the 1980s that psycholinguistic methods have been employed to investigate how readers and hearers detect, process, and comprehend ironic language. This Element reviews the foundational definitions, theories, and psycholinguistic models of ironic language, covering key questions such as the distinction between literal and ironic meaning, the role of contextual information during irony processing, and the cognitive mechanisms involved. These key questions continue to motivate new studies and methodological innovations, providing ample opportunity for future researchers who wish to continue exploring how ironic language is processed and understood.

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Irony as a Test of the Presupposition-Denial Account: An ERP Study

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Anaphoric reference to mereological entities

The Processing of Negation and Polarity: An Overview

Verbal Irony Processing

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