Empirical Investigations of Indirectly Conveyed Meaning
Assertion Versus Presupposition in First and Second Language Acquisition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3137374 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patricia L Carrell (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 353-366 |
| Publication date | 1977-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language Learning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8333 • E-ISSN: 1467-9922 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-1770.1977.tb00127.x |
| OpenAlex | W2094443496 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
The theoretical linguistic distinction between assertion and presupposition was empirically tested with two groups of subjects-young children acquiring English as their first language and adults acquiring English as a second language. The distinction was tested via measurement of the frequency of perceptual errors as a function of differences between asserted information and presupposed information in cleft and pseudo-cleft sentence patterns. Subjects heard a cleft or pseudo-cleft sentence prior to presentation of a slide picture in which the asserted or presupposed noun phrase was misrepresented. The task was to decide if the sentence correctly described the picture. Results indicated that, for both groups of subjects, significantly more errors occurred when the misrepresentation involved the presupposed noun phrase than when it involved the asserted noun phrase
Assertion · Determiner phrase · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Noun · Noun phrase · Phrase · Presupposition · Semantics (computer science) · Sentence · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Philosophy · Psychology · Speech and dialogue systems · Subtitles and Audiovisual Media
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2026 (43) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |