TY - GEN

T1 - Priming the production of implications

AU - Rees, Alice

AU - Bott, Lewis

PY - 2017/7/1

Y1 - 2017/7/1

N2 - We present two experiments investigating the production of implicit constructions. Using a confederate scripting paradigm we find that after making an inference participants were more likely to subsequently produce an implicature. This effect occurred at a global and a local level and was unaffected by the perceived role of the conversational partner. Our findings demonstrate that the choice of whether to be implicit is determined by the activation levels of representations specific to implicatures and that inference and implications have overlapping processing representations.

AB - We present two experiments investigating the production of implicit constructions. Using a confederate scripting paradigm we find that after making an inference participants were more likely to subsequently produce an implicature. This effect occurred at a global and a local level and was unaffected by the perceived role of the conversational partner. Our findings demonstrate that the choice of whether to be implicit is determined by the activation levels of representations specific to implicatures and that inference and implications have overlapping processing representations.

KW - Inferring

KW - Priming

KW - Scalar Implicatures

KW - Speech Production

M3 - Conference contribution/Paper

AN - SCOPUS:85139562355

T3 - CogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition

SP - 2969

EP - 2974

BT - CogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

PB - The Cognitive Science Society

T2 - 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition, CogSci 2017

Y2 - 26 July 2017 through 29 July 2017

ER -