Time Course of Presupposition Processing (B02)

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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.