We present an eye-tracking study on the incremental derivation of the some-but-not-all scalar implicature (SI) associated to the scalar quantifier some. This question has been the matter of a vivid debate, both in linguistics and in psycholinguistics (Chemla & Singh 2014a,b). Experimentally, it was addressed by means of eye-tracking and different results were obtained: while Huang & Snedeker (2009) found evidence for a delay of some with respect to all, Grodner et al. (2010) argued for a rapid integration of pragmatic some. More recently, Breheny et al. (2013a,b) raised some criticism on the paradigm employed in those studies and contributed with a looking-while-listening task showing incremental derivation of the scalar inference. We first raise some methodological questions, arguing that the paradigm used in previous studies was not apt to distinguish whether a scalar inference was derived or not, for different reasons. By means of a novel visual-world eye-tracking experiment in which we exploit the notion of focus in the activation of scalar alternatives, we show new evidence for the incremental derivation of the pragmatic some-but-not-all interpretation of some. We interpret these results within a grammatical approach to SIs (Chierchia et al. 2012; Chierchia 2013), according to which, when scalar alternatives are active, the SI is factored in locally and incrementally during the on-line processing of the scalar quantifier.
Foppolo, F., & Marelli, M. (2017). No Delay for Some Inferences. JOURNAL OF SEMANTICS, 34(4), 659-681.
Citazione: | Foppolo, F., & Marelli, M. (2017). No Delay for Some Inferences. JOURNAL OF SEMANTICS, 34(4), 659-681. |
Tipo: | Articolo in rivista - Articolo scientifico |
Carattere della pubblicazione: | Scientifica |
Presenza di un coautore afferente ad Istituzioni straniere: | No |
Titolo: | No Delay for Some Inferences |
Autori: | Foppolo, F; Marelli, M |
Autori: | MARELLI, MARCO (Ultimo) |
Data di pubblicazione: | 2017 |
Lingua: | English |
Rivista: | JOURNAL OF SEMANTICS |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffx013 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 01 - Articolo su rivista |