Online interpretation of scalar quantifiers: Insight into the semantics–pragmatics interface

Huang, Yi Ting; Snedeker, Jesse

doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2008.09.001

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“…When the instruction was to point to the girl that has two…, participants' inspections to the girl with two socks rose from around 200 ms after the onset of two. By contrast, for the scalar quantifier some, inspections to the same girl rose only much later (around 1000 ms after the onset of some, Experiments 1 and 2 in Huang and Snedeker, 2009). The authors attributed the delay to the computation of scalar implicature, since gaze pattern suggested immediate interpretation of some when its sense disambiguated reference (this was the case when nine socks were evenly distributed among two boys and one girl, Experiment 3, Huang and Snedeker, 2009).…”

Section: Visually Situated Language Comprehension: Methodological Advmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The time course of eye movements was further sensitive to the computation of scalar implicature (Huang & Snedeker, 2009). A depicted girl and a boy were each "handed" two (depicted) socks, and another girl received three balls.…”

Section: Visually Situated Language Comprehension: Methodological Advmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The studies discussed above have relied on temporal characteristics of the gaze record (relative delays indicate processing differences, e.g., Huang & Snedeker, 2009) and on the distribution of attention (e.g., indicating processing of referents vs. nonreferents, e.g., Dahan & Tanenhaus, 2004). A few studies have also interpreted differences in the distribution of visual attention across objects as reflecting Knoeferle, P. (to appear).…”

Section: Visually Situated Language Comprehension: Methodological Advmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Language comprehension in rich non-linguistic contexts: combining eye-tracking and event-related brain potentials

Knoeferle

2015

Cognitive Neuroscience of Natural Language Use

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The present chapter reviews the literature on visually situated language comprehension against the background that most theories of real-time sentence comprehension have ignored rich non-linguistic contexts. However, listeners' eye movements to objects during spoken language comprehension, as well as their eventrelated brain potentials (ERPs) have revealed that non-linguistic cues play an important role for real-time comprehension. In fact, referential processes are rapid and central in visually situated spoken language comprehension and even abstract words are rapidly grounded in objects through semantic associations. Similar ERP responses for non-linguistic and linguistic effects on comprehension suggest these two information sources are on a par in informing language comprehension. ERPs further revealed that non-linguistic cues affect lexical-semantic as well as compositional processes, thus further cementing the role of rich non-linguistic context in language comprehension. However, there is also considerable ambiguity in the linking between comprehension processes and each of these two measures (eye movements and ERPs). Combining eye-tracking and event-related brain potentials would improve the interpretation of individual measures and thus insights into visually-situated language comprehension.Knoeferle, P. (to appear). Language comprehension in rich non-linguistic contexts: combining eye tracking and event-related brain potentials. In: Roel, Williams (Ed.). Towards a cognitive neuroscience of natural language use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Section: Visually Situated Language Comprehension: Methodological Advmentioning

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Section: Visually Situated Language Comprehension: Methodological Advmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Visually Situated Language Comprehension: Methodological Advmentioning

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Language comprehension in rich non-linguistic contexts: combining eye-tracking and event-related brain potentials

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2015

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“…The question of the timecourse of access to Gricean inference is explored in Huang and Snedeker (2009;in press) and Grodner, Klein, Carbary and Tanenhaus (2010). In these studies, participants hear an instruction like, ÔPoint to the girl that has all of the soccer ballsÕ or ÔPoint to the girl that has some of the socksÕ.…”

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Investigating the timecourse of accessing conversational implicatures during incremental sentence interpretation

Breheny¹,

Ferguson²,

Katsos³

2013

Language and Cognitive Processes

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“…Une hypothèse alternative est qu'établir le lien entre le terme faible et l'interprétation pragmatique demande plus de temps (Blutner 2007). Les études réalisées sur des populations adultes basées sur les temps de réaction semblent cependant confirmer qu'accéder à l'interprétation pragmatique est plus difficile cognitivement parlant que d'accéder à l'interprétation sémantique (Bott & Noveck 2004, Huang & Snedeker 2009, Bott et al 2012.…”

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L’impact de l’apprentissage d’une langue seconde sur les capacités pragmatiques : le cas des implicatures scalaires

Dupuy¹,

Stateva

Andreetta

et al. 2017

SHS Web Conf.

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Abstract. There is a vast amount of studies on some forms of implicit communication such as scalar implicatures by monolingual speakers, but few studies have been carried out on the pragmatic capacities of second language learners. The only available data have been collected in Slabakova (2010). This study has shown that L2 learners are more pragmatic than L1 speakers by interpreting a scalar term in their L2. However the replicability of the results has been called into question because of methodological issues and conclusions ignoring empirical data on cognitive processing of scalar implicatures. We therefore used the same experimental material as Slabakova (2010) but improved the methodology and asked two groups of L2 French learners to make a sentence verification task. After a short context, they had to judge an underinformative sentence based on the scalar terms , (). The L2 learners have been tested in their two languages and compared to a sample of French monolinguals. The results of Slabakova (2010) have been replicated since the L2 learners make more inferences in French as monolinguals do. Our results also show that the L2 learners more often derive implicatures in their L1 than monolinguals in the same L1. This suggests that learning a second language has an impact on the way to communicate not only in the L2 but also in the L1.Résumé. Si certaines formes de communication implicite comme les implicatures scalaires ont été l'objet d'un nombre considérable d'études chez les monolingues, peu d'études ont été menées sur les capacités pragmatiques des apprenants de langue seconde (L2). Les seules données disponibles proviennent de l'étude de Slabakova (2010) qui a montré qu'ils sont plus pragmatiques lorsqu'ils interprètent un terme scalaire dans leur L2 que des monolingues. Cependant, des problèmes méthodologiques couplés à des conclusions qui ignorent les données empiriques sur le traitement cognitif des implicatures scalaires remettent en question la réplicabilité des résultats. Nous avons utilisé le même paradigme expérimental que Slabakova (2010) mais en le rendant méthodologiquement plus satisfaisant 1 Etude financée dans le cadre du projet européen AThEME (7° programme cadre de l'UE, agrément n° 613465).

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Online interpretation of scalar quantifiers: Insight into the semantics–pragmatics interface

Cited by 347 publications

References 46 publications

Language comprehension in rich non-linguistic contexts: combining eye-tracking and event-related brain potentials

Language comprehension in rich non-linguistic contexts: combining eye-tracking and event-related brain potentials

Investigating the timecourse of accessing conversational implicatures during incremental sentence interpretation

L’impact de l’apprentissage d’une langue seconde sur les capacités pragmatiques : le cas des implicatures scalaires

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