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Experimental Perspectives on Presuppositions

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Editors:
  1. Florian Schwarz

    1. Dept. of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

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  • First full volume on work in the rapidly emerging sub-field of experimental work on presuppositions
  • State-of-the-Art snapshot of latest work on presuppositions, and a point of reference for further developments in this area of research
  • Reports work that takes the recent shift towards experimental methods in pragmatics to a new set of issues
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics (SITP, volume 45)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Presuppositions in Context—Theoretical Issues and Experimental Perspectives

    • Florian Schwarz
    Pages 1-37

  3. Presupposition Processing and Accommodation: An Experiment on wieder (‘again’) and Consequences for Other Triggers

    • Sonja Tiemann, Mareike Kirsten, Sigrid Beck, Ingo Hertrich, Bettina Rolke
    Pages 39-65

  4. Resolving Temporary Referential Ambiguity Using Presupposed Content

    • Jacopo Romoli, Manizeh Khan, Yasutada Sudo, Jesse Snedeker
    Pages 67-87

  5. Presuppositions vs. Asserted Content in Online Processing

    • Florian Schwarz
    Pages 89-108

  6. Presupposition Satisfaction, Locality and Discourse Constituency

    • Christina S. Kim
    Pages 109-134

  7. A Cross-Linguistic Study of the Non-at-issueness of Exhaustive Inferences

    • Emilie Destruel, Daniel Velleman, Edgar Onea, Dylan Bumford, Jingyang Xue, David Beaver
    Pages 135-156

  8. A Cross-Linguistic Study on Information Backgrounding and Presupposition Projection

    • Patrícia Amaral, Chris Cummins
    Pages 157-172

  9. Weak and Strong Triggers

    • Jacques Jayez, Valeria Mongelli, Anne Reboul, Jean-Baptiste van der Henst
    Pages 173-193

  10. Symmetry and Incrementality in Conditionals

    • Florian Schwarz
    Pages 195-213

  11. An Experimental Comparison Between Presuppositions and Indirect Scalar Implicatures

    • Jacopo Romoli, Florian Schwarz
    Pages 215-240

  12. Three-Year-Olds’ Understanding of Know and Think

    • Rachel Dudley, Naho Orita, Valentine Hacquard, Jeffrey Lidz
    Pages 241-262
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About this book

This volume brings together some of the most recent developments in the field of experimental pragmatics, specifically empirical approaches to theoretical issues in presupposition theory. It includes studies of the online processing of presupposed content; investigations of the interpretive properties of presuppositions in various linguistic contexts; comparative perspectives relative to other aspects of meaning, such as asserted content and implicatures; cross-linguistic comparisons of presupposition triggers; and perspectives from language acquisition. Taken together, these novel contributions provide a snapshot of state-of-the art developments in this area and will serve as a point of reference for numerous emerging avenues of future work. It makes for an ideal set of readings for advanced university courses on experimental studies of meaning and is a must-read for anyone interested in experimental research on meaning in natural language.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

    Florian Schwarz

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Experimental Perspectives on Presuppositions

  • Editors: Florian Schwarz

  • Series Title: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07980-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-07979-0Published: 25 September 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34797-4Published: 10 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-07980-6Published: 12 September 2014

  • Series ISSN: 1873-0043

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1788

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 262

  • Number of Illustrations: 58 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Psycholinguistics, Semantics

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