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Comprehension of presupposition triggers in Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorders

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2020
Built on a previous finding that children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) had difficulty comprehending presuppositions, a domain of knowledge which is crucial for successful communication, the present study investigated the comprehension of seven ...
C. Cheung, Yicheng Rong, Fei Chen, M. Leung, T. Tang   +4 more
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Online processing and offline judgments of different types of presupposition triggers by second language speakers

Second Language Research
The present study aims to explore how second language (L2) speakers process four types of presupposition triggers in an online self-paced reading task and an offline acceptability judgment task.
Shuo Feng, Kailun Zhang
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Processing Presupposition Triggers

2016
The aim of this chapter is to investigate the problem of processing different categories of presupposition triggers. As claimed in Chap. 2, if a speaker utters a sentence p containing a presupposition trigger that activates a presupposition q, and q does not belong to the common ground of presuppositions, it is a case of presupposition failure. If this
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Are Implicative Verbs Presupposition Triggers?

Normativity and Variety of Speech Actions, 2018
M. Włodarczyk
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Presupposition Triggers in Online Editorial Discourse

American Journal of Education and Technology
Presupposition triggers play a very crucial role when readers draw inferences from what they read. This paper examined the prevalence of presupposition triggers in 39 online political editorials taken from three Philippine dailies, and how such ...
M. B. Lavadia, Evelyn Amparo, Kimberly Dumalo   +2 more
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Proper Names and Indexicals Trigger Rigid Presuppositions

Journal of Semantics, 2009
I provide a novel semantic analysis of proper names and indexicals, combining insights from the competing traditions of referentialism, championed by Kripke and Kaplan, and descriptivism, introduced by Frege and Russell, and more recently resurrected by Geurts and Elbourne, among others.
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A Corpus-Driven Pragmatic Analysis of Verb Presupposition Triggers in The Great Gatsby: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective

International Journal of Education and Humanities
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald has been extensively examined from literary and stylistic perspectives; however, its pragmatic dimensions, particularly verb presupposition triggers, remain underexplored.
Yitong Duan
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Presupposition Triggering and Disambiguation

2018
In this essay, we will consider the prospects for recent Gricean theories concerning presupposition triggering. Gricean explanations of presupposition triggering tend to ground triggering in principles concerning the question under discussion or the topic of the sentence.
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A Study of Presupposition Triggers in Arabic Supervisor – Student Interaction

Journal of Education for the Humanities, 2023
Ashraf Dhannoon
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‘Presupposition can be a bluff’: How abstract nouns can be used as presupposition triggers

Journal of Pragmatics, 2001
Abstract This study is concerned with expressions of the type the thing is that … or the problem was that …, which are seen as constructions in the Construction Grammar sense of the term and referred to as ‘N- be-that -constructions’. The material discussed is derived from the 225-million word British section of COBUILD's Bank of English ...
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