The rational speech act framework

J Degen - Annual Review of Linguistics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The past decade has seen the rapid development of a new approach to pragmatics that
attempts to integrate insights from formal and experimental semantics and pragmatics …

Moving visual world experiments online? A web-based replication of Dijkgraaf, Hartsuiker, and Duyck (2017) using PCIbex and WebGazer. js

MS Slim, RJ Hartsuiker - Behavior Research Methods, 2023 - Springer
The visual world paradigm is one of the most influential paradigms to study real-time
language processing. The present study tested whether visual world studies can be moved …

Pragmatic responses to under-informative some-statements are not scalar implicatures

M Kissine, P De Brabanter - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
A highly emblematic paradigm in experimental pragmatics consists in presenting
participants with an existentially quantified sentence of the form Some X are Y in a context in …

[HTML][HTML] Adjectival polarity and the processing of scalar inferences

B Van Tiel, E Pankratz - Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2021 - glossa-journal.org
In a seminal study, Bott & Noveck (2004) found that the computation of the scalar inference
of 'some'implying 'not all'was associated with increased sentence verification times …

Seeing is believing: Testing an explicit linking assumption for visual world eye-tracking in psycholinguistics

J Degen, L Kursat, DD Leigh - … of the Annual Meeting of the …, 2021 - escholarship.org
Experimental investigation is fundamental to theory-building in cognitive science, but its
value depends on the linking assumptions made by researchers about the mapping …

Scalar implicatures in adult L2 learners: A self-paced reading study

J Cho - Second Language Research, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Using self-paced reading, the present study compared native English and adult L1-Korean–
L2-English speakers' processing behaviors during online comprehension of …

Representing polar questions

Y Tian, B Van Tiel, É Clin, R Breheny - Journal of psycholinguistic research, 2021 - Springer
Although the linguistic properties of polar questions have been extensively studied,
comparatively little is known about how polar questions are processed in real time. In this …

[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
Studies addressing the question of whether scalar inferences generally incur a processing
cost have yielded conflicting results. Constraint-based accounts, which seek to unify these …

[PDF][PDF] Already Perfect: Language users access the pragmatic meanings of conditionals first

E Evcen, D Barner - 2024 - osf.io
Conditional statements often have two interpretations. For instance, the statement,“If you
mow the lawn, you will receive $5”, might be understood to mean that mowing the lawn is …

Online eye tracking and real-time sentence processing: On opportunities and efficacy for capturing psycholinguistic effects of different magnitudes and diversity

Y Prystauka, GTM Altmann, J Rothman - Behavior Research Methods, 2024 - Springer
Online research methods have the potential to facilitate equitable accessibility to otherwise-
expensive research resources, as well as to more diverse populations and language …