Semantics and Pragmatics: From Experiment to Theory Book

List of Tables vii

List of Figures viii

Preface and Acknowledgements x

Notes on Contributors xii

Part I Implicature

1 Implicature Manfred Krifka 3

2 Changes in Activation Levels with Scalar Implicatures Lewis Bott 16

3 A Large-Scale Investigation of Scalar Implicature Petra Hendriks John Hoeks Helen de Hoop Irene Krämer Erik-Jan Smits Jennifer Spenader Henriëtte de Swart 30

4 Evaluating Under-Informative Utterances with Context-Dependent and Context-Independent Scales: Experimental and Theoretical Implications Napoleon Katsos 51

5 Distinguishing the Said from the Implicated Using a Novel Experimental Paradigm Meredith Larson Ryan Doran Yaron McNabb Rachel Baker Matthew Berends Alex Djalali Gregory Ward 74

6 Experiments on QUD and Focus as a Contextual Constraint on Scalar Implicature Calculation Arjen Zondervan 94

Part II Negation

7 Meaning and Inference Linked to Negation: An Experimental Pragmatic Approach Ira A. Noveck 113

8 The DE-Blocking Hypothesis: The Role of Grammar in Scalar Reasoning Anne Bezuiderihout Robin Morris Cintia Widmann 124

9 Experimental Pragmatics and Parsimony: The Case of Scopally Ambiguous Sentences Containing Negation Andrea Gualmini 145

10 How are Pragmatic Differences between Positive and Negative Sentences Captured in the Processes and Representations in Language Comprehension? Barbara Kaup 162

11 Brain Potentials for Logical Semantics/Pragmatics John E. Drury Karsten Steinhauer 186

Part III Presupposition

12 Presupposition: From Theory to Experiment Uli Sauerland 219

13 The Real-Time Use of Information about Common Ground in Restricting Domains of Reference Daphna Heller Daniel GrodnerMichael K. Tanenhaus 228

14 An Experimental Approach to Adverbial Modification Emmanuel Chemla 249

15 Weak Definite Noun Phrases: Rich, But Not Strong, Special, But Not Unique Natalie M. Klein Whitney M. Gegg-Harrison Rachel S. Sussman Greg N. Carlson Michael K. Tanenhaus 264

16 The Neuropragmatics of 'Simple' Utterance Comprehension: an ERP Review Jos J.A. Van Berkum 276

Name Index 317

Subject Index 322