Gricean Expectations in Online Sentence Comprehension: An ERP Study on the Processing of Scalar Inferences
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dc.contributor.author | Augurzky, Petra | |
dc.contributor.author | Franke, Michael | |
dc.contributor.author | Ulrich, Rolf | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-12-23T16:09:26Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-12-23T16:09:26Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 03640213 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://osnascholar.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/handle/unios/8800 | - |
dc.description.abstract | There is substantial support for the general idea that a formalization of comprehenders' expectations about the likely next word in a sentence helps explaining data related to online sentence processing. While much research has focused on syntactic, semantic, and discourse expectations, the present event-related potentials (ERPs) study investigates neurolinguistic correlates of pragmatic expectations, which arise when comprehenders expect a sentence to conform to Gricean Maxims of Conversation. For predicting brain responses associated with pragmatic processing, we introduce a formal model of such Gricean pragmatic expectations, using an idealized incremental interpreter. We examine whether pragmatic expectancies derived from this model modulate the amplitude of the N400, a component that has been associated with predictive processing. As part of its parameterization, the model distinguishes genuine pragmatic interpreters, who expect maximally informative true utterances, from literal interpreters, who only expect truthfulness. We explore the model's non-trivial predictions for an experimental setup which uses picture-sentence verification with ERPs recorded at several critical positions in sentences containing the scalar implicature trigger some. We find that Gricean expectations indeed affect the N400, largely in line with the predictions of our model, but also discuss discrepancies between model predictions and observations critically. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | German Science Foundation (DFG)German Research Foundation (DFG) [SFB833]; Institutional Strategy of the University of Tuebingen [ZUK 63]; This research was funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG), in the projects B1 of the SFB833 The Construction of Meaning, and the Institutional Strategy of the University of Tuebingen (ZUK 63). We thank Oliver Bott, Robin Hornig, Fabian Schlotterbeck, and Wolfgang Sternefeld for valuable discussion, and Nadine Balbach, Anna Hanle, Natalie Leschinski, and Helena Schutze for assistance during data acquisition. The authors do not have any conflicts of interest. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | WILEY | |
dc.relation.ispartof | COGNITIVE SCIENCE | |
dc.subject | COMPONENT | |
dc.subject | CONTEXT | |
dc.subject | ERPs | |
dc.subject | IMPLICATURES | |
dc.subject | N400 | |
dc.subject | Pragmatic processing | |
dc.subject | PREDICTION | |
dc.subject | Predictive processing | |
dc.subject | Probabilistic pragmatic modelling | |
dc.subject | Psychology | |
dc.subject | Psychology, Experimental | |
dc.subject | Scalar implicatures | |
dc.subject | TIME-COURSE | |
dc.title | Gricean Expectations in Online Sentence Comprehension: An ERP Study on the Processing of Scalar Inferences | |
dc.type | journal article | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/cogs.12776 | |
dc.identifier.isi | ISI:000482382700009 | |
dc.description.volume | 43 | |
dc.description.issue | 8 | |
dc.identifier.eissn | 15516709 | |
dc.publisher.place | 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA | |
dcterms.isPartOf.abbreviation | Cogn. Sci. | |
dcterms.oaStatus | Bronze | |
crisitem.author.dept | Institut für Kognitionswissenschaft | - |
crisitem.author.deptid | institute28 | - |
crisitem.author.parentorg | FB 08 - Humanwissenschaften | - |
crisitem.author.grandparentorg | Universität Osnabrück | - |
crisitem.author.netid | FrMi883 | - |
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