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Experimental Investigations of the Typology of Presupposition Triggers [PDF]
Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2012 The behaviour of presupposition triggers in human language has been extensively studied and given rise to many distinct theoretical proposals. One intuitively appealing way of characterising presupposition is to argue that it constitutes backgrounded ...
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Focus, uniqueness and soft presupposition triggers
Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium, 2012 Von Heusinger (2007) shows that the definite article\’s uniqueness presupposition causes problems in a standard account of focus alternatives. He solves this problem by proposing a new lexical entry for the definite article, a solution adopted by Riester
Aloni, M. +3 more
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Experimentally investigating the production of additive presupposition triggers [PDF]
, 2022 This study investigates under which circumstances speakers produce additive presupposition triggers such as too to understand what contexts (if any) necessitate their presence and how sensitive they are to discourse factors. Additives have been argued to
Lorson, Alex +2 more
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Processing Presuppositions. Are Implicative Verbs Soft Triggers? [PDF]
Research in Language, 2021 This paper investigates the question whether implicative verbs should be considered as soft presupposition triggers, i.e., as triggers activating optional context repairs.
Włodarczyk, Mateusz
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Representing Context: Presupposition Triggers and Focus-sensitivity
, 2020 This dissertation investigates the role of Focus-sensitivity for a typology of presupposition triggers. The central hypothesis is that Focus-sensitive triggers require a linguistic antecedent in the discourse model, whereas presuppositions of triggers ...
Goebel, Alexander
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Choosing to presuppose: strategic uses of presupposition triggers [PDF]
, 2022 This PhD project investigates the discourse structuring and managing properties of presupposition triggers. Specifically, the thesis is a theoretical and experimental investigation of what motivates speakers to presuppose as opposed to assert content ...
Lorson, Alexandra
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Proper names in the role of presupposition triggers [PDF]
, 2020 When creating or perceiving utterances in the process of communication, everyone, regardless of linguistic or cultural background, primarily relies on the experience and knowledge of the world, correlating what is said with reality and producing mental ...
Колосова, Ганна Андріївна
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Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2021 While presuppositions are often thought to be lexically encoded, researchers have repeatedly argued for ‘triggering algorithms’ that productively classify certain entailments as presuppositions. We provide new evidence for this position and sketch a novel triggering rule.
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Word learning tasks as a window into the triggering problem for presuppositions. [PDF]
Nat Lang SemantAbstractIn this paper, we show that native speakers spontaneously divide the complex meaning of a new word into a presuppositional component and an assertive component. These results argue for the existence of a productive triggering algorithm for presuppositions, one that is not based on alternative lexical items nor on contextual salience.
Bade N, Schlenker P, Chemla E.
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Presupposition Triggers: Iraqi EFL Students' Strategies in Approaching Presupposition
International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences, 2022 EFL students are observed to face various difficulties in approaching pragmatic issues; therefore, they resort to numerous strategies to arrive at convincing pragmatic interpretations, among these issues, presupposition constitutes one of the problematic areas for students. Thus, this paper aims at detecting the most common strategies taken on by Iraqi
Abbas Lutfi Hussien +1 more
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