Semantics and Pragmatics: From Experiment to Theory

Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors PART I: IMPLICATURE Implicatures; M.Krifka Changes in Activation Levels with Scalar Implicatures; L.Bott A Large-Scale Investigation of Scalar Implicature; P.Hendriks , J.Hoeks , H.De Hoop , I.Krämer , E-J.Smits , J.Spenader & H.De Swart Evaluating Under-Informative Utterances with Context-Dependent and Context-Independent Scales: Experimental and Theoretical Implications; N.Katsos Distinguishing the SAID from the IMPLICATED Using a Novel Experimental Paradigm; M.Larson , R.Doran , Y.Mcnabb , R.Baker , M.Berends , A.Djalali ,& G.Ward Experiments on QUD and Focus as a Contextual Constraint on Scalar Implicature Calculation; A.Zondervan PART II: NEGATION Meaning and Inference Linked to Negation: An Experimental Pragmatic Approach; I.A.Noveck The DE-Blocking Hypothesis: The Role of Grammar in Scalar Reasoning; A.Bezuidenhout , R.Morris & C.Widmann Experimental Pragmatics and Parsimony: The Case of Scopally Ambiguous Sentences Containing Negation; A.Gualmini How are Pragmatic Differences Between Positive and Negative Sentences Captured in the Processes and Representations in Language Comprehension; B.Kaup Brain Potentials For Logical-Semantics/-Pragmatics; J.E.Drury & K.Steinhauer PART III: PRESUPPOSITION Presupposition: From Theory to Experiment; U.Sauerland The Real-Time Use of Information about Common Ground in Restricting Domains of Reference; D.Heller , D.Grodner & M.K.Tanenhaus An Experimental Approach of Adverbial Modification; E.Chemla Weak Definite Noun Phrases: Rich, But Not Strong, Special, But Not Unique; N.M.Klein , W.M.Gegg-Harrison , R.S.Sussman , G.N.Carlson & M.K.Tanenhaus The Neuropragmatics of 'Simple' Utterance Comprehension an Erp Review; J.J.A.Van Berkum Index