Is Immediate Processing of Presupposition Triggers Automatic or Capacity-Limited? A Combination of the PRP Approach with a Self-Paced Reading Task
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11052458 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cosima Schneider (0000-0002-4314-0885, University of Tübingen, corresponding author), Nadine Bade (0000-0001-9506-3984), Markus Janczyk (0000-0002-9958-3220, University of Bremen) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 247-273 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Psycholinguistic Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-6905 • E-ISSN: 1573-6555 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10936-019-09686-3 |
| PMID | 32030581 |
| OpenAlex | W3004509082 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 38 |
Informally speaking, presuppositions are meaning components which are part of the common ground for speakers in a conversation, that is, background information which is taken for granted by interlocutors. The current literature suggests an immediate processing of presuppositions, starting directly on the word triggering the presupposition. In the present paper, we focused on two presupposition triggers in German, the definite determiner the (German der ) and the iterative particle again (German wieder ). Experiment 1 replicates the immediate effects which were previously observed in a self-paced reading study. Experiment 2 then investigates whether this immediate processing of presuppositions is automatic or capacity-limited by employing the psychological refractory period approach and the locus of slack-logic, which have been successfully employed for this reason in various fields of cognitive psychology. The results argue against automatic processing, but rather suggest that the immediate processing of presuppositions is capacity-limited. This potentially helps specifying the nature of the involved processes; for example, a memory search for a potential referent
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Conversation · German · Information processing · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Presupposition · Psycholinguistics · Reading (process) · Referent · Communication · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistic research and analysis · Philosophy · Psychology
Translations from the philosophical writings of Gottlob Frege
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| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |