Hey Little Sister, Who's the Only One? Modulating Informativeness in the Resolution of Privative Ambiguity
| Autor: | Meroni, Luisa, Foppolo, Francesca, Marelli, Marco, Gualmini, Andrea, LS Italiaanse taal, letteren en cultuur, ILS Acquisition |
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| Přispěvatelé: | LS Italiaanse taal, letteren en cultuur, ILS Acquisition, Foppolo, F, Marelli, M, Meroni, L, Gualmini, A |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Eye Movements
Entailment Cognitive Neuroscience media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Context (language use) Logical consequence Semantic ambiguity Visual world paradigm Artificial Intelligence Reading (process) Anaphora Humans Privative Eye Movement Measurements media_common Language Only Ambiguity resolution Anaphora (linguistics) Interpretation (philosophy) Ambiguity Linguistics Semantics Visual Perception Psychology Comprehension L-LIN/01 - GLOTTOLOGIA E LINGUISTICA |
| Zdroj: | Cognitive Science. Wiley-Blackwell |
| ISSN: | 1551-6709 0364-0213 |
| Popis: | We present two eye-tracking experiments on the interpretation of sentences like "The tall girl is (not) the only one that ...," which are ambiguous between the anaphoric (the only girl that ...) and the exophoric interpretation (the only individual that ...). These interpretations differ in informativeness: in a positive context, the exophoric (strong) reading entails the anaphoric (weak), while in a negative context the entailment pattern is reversed and the anaphoric reading is the strongest one. We tested whether adults rely on considerations about informativeness in solving the ambiguity. The results show that participants interpreted one exophorically in both positive and negative contexts. Given these findings, we cast doubts on the idea that Informativeness plays a role in ambiguity resolution and proposes a Principle of Maximal Exploitation: When a context is provided, adults extend their domain of evaluation to include the whole scenario, independently from truth-conditional considerations about informativity and strength. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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