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How Children Learn What Others Presuppose ...
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Abstract:
Presupposition triggers are words or particles that contribute to the meaning of a sentence a piece of information that is assumed (by the speaker) to be in the common ground of the speaker and listener. Sentences with presupposition triggers are infelicitous if the presupposition is not satisfied in the context, i.e., if the presupposed piece of information is actually not shared by the interlocutor. (1) a. John ate broccoli, too. b. John ate broccoli and beans. (2) a. My cat is grey. b. I have a cat and she is grey. Above, sentences (a) and (b) potentially have the same content, but merely differ in what they assert vs. presuppose. For example, both (1a) and (1b) could be uttered in the same situation: one where John ate both broccoli and beans. Crucially, (1a) would be uttered if the addressee already knew that John had eaten beans; while (1b) would be uttered if the information that John ate beans was as unfamiliar to the addressee as the information that he ate broccoli. The same applies to sentences ...
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Keyword:
Developmental Psychology; First and Second Language Acquisition; FOS Languages and literature; FOS Psychology; Linguistics; Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics; Psychology; Social and Behavioral Sciences
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URL: https://osf.io/e8gav/
https://dx.doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/e8gav
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