Open AccessShared mechanism underlying unembedded and embedded enrichments: evidence from enrichment priming
Author(s) -
ChengHe Sun,
Richard Breheny
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
zas papers in linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1435-9588
DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.61.2018.505
Subject(s) - priming (agriculture) , mechanism (biology) , psychology , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , computer science , biology , epistemology , philosophy , botany , germination
In this paper, we use a priming paradigm to explore the mechanisms underlyingunembedded and embedded scalar enrichments. In particular, the aim is to see if localpragmatic enrichment could be a shared mechanism, involved in both. The two experimentspresented adopt Bott & Chemla's (2016) enrichment priming paradigm and test whetherunembedded and embedded enrichments could prime each other. The goal is to investigatewhether local pragmatic enrichment is indeed being accessed for the interpretation of theunembedded scalar and whether local enrichments, like other lexical semantic phenomena,are susceptible to priming.Keywords: pragmatics, scalar enrichments, priming.