Time Course of Presupposition Processing (B02)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages ; General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology
• Term: from 2009 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 75650358

The project is concerned with the question how presuppositional information is processed during the online construction of a sentence’s meaning. Building on earlier results, we propose a model of pragmatic presupposition processing in which listeners expect speakers to make pragmatically felici-tous utterances and use these expectations to incrementally and predictively process incoming mate-rial. We propose to link violations of such expectations to empirical data from mouse-tracking exper-iments among others. Mouse tracking is an established tool in cognitive psychology that delivers fine-grained data about the temporal unfolding of a decision process.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 833: Emergence of Meaning: The Dynamics and Adaptivity of Linguistic Structures
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Oliver Bott, from 5/2019 until 9/2019; Professor Dr. Michael Franke; Professor Dr. Markus Janczyk; Professor Dr. Gerhard Jäger; Professorin Dr. Bettina Rolke, until 6/2017