Constraint-based pragmatic processing

J Degen, MK Tanenhaus - 2019 - academic.oup.com
… ; and extreme parallelism—all information is processed in parallel and weighted equally in
processing, the chapter argues for a constraint-based approach to pragmatic processing, …

[PDF][PDF] Probability and processing speed of scalar inferences is context-dependent.

L Kursat, J Degen, S Denison, M Mack, Y Xu… - …, 2020 - cognitivesciencesociety.org
… of constraint-based accounts of pragmatic processing. … in turn affect how much processing
effort must be invested to … evidence for constraint-based accounts of pragmatic processing. It is …

Pragmatic inferences are QUD-sensitive: an experimental study

E Ronai, M Xiang - Journal of Linguistics, 2021 - cambridge.org
… In particular, we build on earlier work in the constraint-based framework by Degen (2013)
and Degen & Tanenhaus (2015), which put forward the hypothesis that processing cost tracks …

A constraint-based approach to linguistic interfaces

G Bîlbîie - Lingvisticæ Investigationes, 2020 - jbe-platform.com
… , have received either a syntactic analysis (by movement, as … analysis (by argument
composition, as in constraint-based … clauses, by reformulating a pragmatic theory of NPIs (based …

Gapping: A constraint-based syntax-semantics interface

SH Park - 2019 - search.proquest.com
… , the analysis … a constraintbased constructivist analysis of the syntax/semantics of Gapping
in which gapped clauses interact with coordination and other complex structures. The analysis

Expectations over unspoken alternatives predict pragmatic inferences

J Hu, R Levy, J Degen, S Schuster - Transactions of the Association …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
… Building upon constraint-based accounts of human language processing (Degen and
Tanenhaus, 2015, 2016), we test the hypothesis that SIs depend on the availability of alternatives, …

A tripartite structure of pragmatic language abilities: comprehension of social conventions, intonation processing, and causal reasoning

S Floyd, E Fedorenko, E Gibson, Z Mineroff, Z Mineroff… - 2023 - psyarxiv.com
… For our key analysis that aims to discover relationships among pragmatic phenomena,
we relied on Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) (Cattell, 1952; Holzinger & Harman, 1941; …

Integrating pragmatic reasoning in an efficiency-based theory of utterance choice

E Kravtchenko - 2022 - publikationen.sulb.uni-saarland.de
processing difficulty throughout this work, but rather focus on production choices and their
pragmatic … advent of probabilistic and constraint-based models of pragmatic reasoning. The …

Event-related potentials in pragmatic priming

A Rees, L Bott, PB Schumacher - Neuroscience Letters, 2019 - Elsevier
… , pragmatic enrichment, using a phenomenon known as scalar implicatures [4,5], such as
the enrichment that occurs from some to some but not all. Behavioural data on the processing

A constraint-based modeling of negative polarity items in result clause constructions in Romanian

MM Rizea, M Sailer - Lingvisticæ Investigationes, 2020 - jbe-platform.com
… a scalar, pragmatic theory of NPIs in a constraint-based, … The constraint-based,
representational perspective of this … -oriented syntactic analysis and a constraint-based system of …