2024
Exploring scalar diversity through priming: A lexical decision study with adjectives
LACINA, Radim a Nicole GOTZNERZákladní údaje
Originální název
Exploring scalar diversity through priming: A lexical decision study with adjectives
Autoři
LACINA, Radim ORCID a Nicole GOTZNER
Vydání
46. vyd. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024
Další údaje
Jazyk
angličtina
Typ výsledku
Stať ve sborníku
Stát vydavatele
Nizozemské království
Utajení
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Forma vydání
elektronická verze "online"
Odkazy
Označené pro přenos do RIV
Ne
Klíčová slova anglicky
scalar diversity, lexical decision task, priming, adjectives, boundedness
Příznaky
Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 23. 1. 2026 13:03, PhDr. Aleš Bičan, Ph.D.
Anotace
V originále
When someone says 'My soup was warm', they are often understood as saying that it was warm, but not hot. This is assumed to arise via a scalar implicature. According to the standard assumption, 'warm' and 'hot' are in competition and by saying 'warm', we reason that the speaker did not intend to convey 'hot'. This exclusion of alternatives should apply uniformly to any expression that can be ordered on a scale. Yet there are substantial differences in the endorsement rates of the strengthened meaning between various scales. These could be due to the availability of expressions or to the underlying semantic structure. We use priming to measure how active in the mind lexical expressions are. Contrary to the standard assumption, the more an expression was primed, the less likely a scalar implicature was endorsed. We discuss how the semantic structure of adjectives can support pragmatic reasoning without lexical alternatives.
