31.3113, Confs: Cog Sci, Neuroling, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics/Online

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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 20:57:06
From: Giuliano Armenante [giuliano.armenante at uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: Processing Presuppositions: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches

 
Processing Presuppositions: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches 

Date: 19-Oct-2020 - 21-Oct-2020 
Location: Tübingen [Online via Zoom], Germany 
Contact: Giuliano Armenante 
Contact Email: giuliano.armenante at uni-tuebingen.de 
Meeting URL: https://uni-tuebingen.de/forschung/forschungsschwerpunkte/sonderforschungsbereiche/sfb-833/forschungsprojekte/b2-bottfrankejaegerjanczyk/workshop-2020/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Neurolinguistics; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

The workshop “Processing Presuppositions: Theoretical and Methodological
Approaches” is organized by Projects B1 and B2 of the SFB 833 “The
Construction of Meaning” at the University of Tübingen and will be held online
on October 19 and 21, 2020.

Presuppositions have received considerable attention in linguistic theory over
the past decades, with a surge of experimental work in this domain in recent
years.

Most work on presupposition theory has focused on two main issues: ‘the
triggering problem’ (Abrusán, 2016; Beaver, 1997; Schwarz, 2016) and ‘the
projection problem’ (Beaver, 1997; Schwarz, 2016). While the former is
associated with the source of presuppositional content, which has been argued
to stem from lexical material (the semantic view; e.g., Frege, 1892 and
Strawson, 1950) or from expectations formed by discourse participants (the
pragmatic view; see Stalnaker, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1998), the latter is
concerned with when and why presuppositions in embedded clauses can be
maintained - an issue that is still under debate.

Although no consensus has thus been reached on a viable theory of
presupposition, empirical research has grown in importance by drawing from
psycholinguistic methods. These, in return, provide means to test subtle
predictions of various competing theoretical proposals and enhance our
understanding of natural language processing (e.g., Brasoveanu & Dotlačil,
2015; Chemla & Schlenker, 2012; Domaneschi & Di Paola, 2018; Schwarz, 2015;
Schwarz & Tiemann, 2017; Shetreet, Alexander, Romoli, Chierchia & Kuperberg,
2019). To this end, the time course of presupposition processing promises to
offer insights that are essential to the modeling of incrementality.

The workshop aims at providing a forum for those scholars whose research
tackles current issues in presupposition theory and is especially grounded in
empirical evidence. Topics to be discussed include:
- Incremental and predictive processing of presupposition resolution
- Presupposition projection and accommodation
- Processing of presuppositions in relation to other pragmatic inferences
- Appropriateness of experimental methods used to test predictions for
presupposition-related phenomena

For further information, please visit our website: https://bit.ly/2t1iUyY
 

Program Information: 

The workshop provides a forum for researchers investigating
presupposition-related phenomena and intends to contribute to the debate on
long-standing issues of the theory in light of the empirical evidence provided
by psycho- and neurolinguistic methods.

Workshop venue: University of Tübingen (held virtually via Zoom web
conferencing)
Workshop registration: pspprocessing at sfb833.uni-tuebingen.de 

Invited Speakers:
Nadine Bade (ENS Paris)
Chris Cummins (University of Edinburgh)
Simona Di Paola (University of Genoa)
Jakub Dotlačil (University of Amsterdam)
Jacopo Romoli (Ulster University)
Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS; New York University)
Einat Shetreet (Tel Aviv University)

Organizers: G. Armenante, P. Augurzky, N. Balbach, O. Bott, M. Franke, G.
Jäger, M. Janczyk, F. Schlotterbeck, C. Schneider, B. Stolterfoht, R. Ulrich.





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