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Rees, Alice ORCID: 0000-0001-5906-2693, Bott, Lewis and Schumacher, Petra B. ORCID: 0000-0003-0263-8502 (2019). Event-related potentials in pragmatic priming. Neuroscience Letters, 712. p. 134435. ISSN 03043940

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DOI:10.1016/j.neulet.2019.134435

Link to the document: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2019.134435

Abstract

Priming of pragmatic enrichment has been found in behavioural studies. We extend this by examining the neural correlates of priming for two implicature categories, quantifiers and disjunctions. Participants engaged in a primed sentence-picture matching task where they were presented with a sentence (e.g., “some of the letters are Bs”) followed by a picture. In prime trials the pictures were either consistent with an enriched interpretation (some but not all) or a basic interpretation (some and possibly all) of the sentence. The pictures in target trials were always consistent with the enriched interpretation. Using ERPs, we found a priming effect on the picture reflected in a reduced positivity for quantifiers when the preceding trial had an enriched interpretation, and no effect for disjunction. The pragmatic priming effect can be dissociated from expectation-based processes. It suggests that abstract derivation processes are primed during pragmatic alignment

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Creators	Email	ORCID	ORCID Put Code
Rees, Alice	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0001-5906-2693	UNSPECIFIED
Bott, Lewis	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Schumacher, Petra B.	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0003-0263-8502	UNSPECIFIED