35.3442, FYI: Irene Mognon and Petra Hendriks in conversation: "Reconciling Scalar Implicature Theories with Processing Data" on Tuesday 10th December

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Subject: 35.3442, FYI: Irene Mognon and Petra Hendriks in conversation: "Reconciling Scalar Implicature Theories with Processing Data" on Tuesday 10th December

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Date: 04-Dec-2024
From: Clare Patterson [clare.s.patterson at warwick.ac.uk]
Subject: Irene Mognon and Petra Hendriks in conversation: "Reconciling Scalar Implicature Theories with Processing Data" on Tuesday 10th December


DiscoMatiX is rounding off its Autumn series with Irene Mognon and
Petra Hendriks in conversation, on the topic "Reconciling Scalar
Implicature Theories with Processing Data" (abstract below). The
meeting takes place online via Zoom, on Tuesday 10th December,
16:00-16:50 CET. All are welcome to join!

To join the session, please send an email to
discomatix.group at gmail.com to receive the Zoom link.

Like other disciplines, linguistics relies on theory development as a
vital component of its empirical research cycle. Ideally, experiments
should test theories, and theories should inform experiments, with
continuous cyclic interactions between the two. In this talk, we will
focus on two prominent theories of scalar implicatures: the
Grammatical Theory and the Relevance Theory framework. We will
illustrate how each of these theories has received markedly different
interpretations in the experimental literature, leading to
contradictory predictions regarding the processing steps and the time
course of scalar implicature generation. For example, whereas some
experimental studies predicted - based on the Grammatical Theory -
that the decision to generate scalar implicatures should be
cognitively costly, other experimental studies based on the same
theory predicted that cognitive effort or delays should not be
observed in association with scalar implicature generation.

These contradictory predictions show the importance of spelling out
and clarifying the often hidden assumptions of linguistic theories.
Furthermore, they suggest that since linguistic theories often rely on
assumptions from other fields of cognitive science, it is essential to
carefully consider the alignment between linguistic theories and other
relevant theories of cognition. This will allow researchers to
optimally engage in the empirical cycle and shed more light on the
characteristics and processing of scalar implicatures in particular,
and pragmatics more in general.

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     General Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Psycholinguistics




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