The Interaction of Bayesian Pragmatics and Lexical Semantics in Linguistic Interpretation: Using Event-related Potentials to Investigate Hearers’ Probabilistic Predictions
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Short Summary of the Project
The project is a part of the SPP Experimental Pragmatics by the German Research Association (DFG). The project addresses the question on how discourse contexts influence the way sentence meaning is composed from lexical meaning and, to this end, conducts EEG experiments. Specifically, predictions from Bayesian pragmatics and semantic similarity views are contrasted and implications for the debate on semantic minimalism and truth pragmatics are investigated. In addition, a model is developed of how discourse context affects the composition of sentence meanings (for a more detailed description of the project see here.)
Project-Related Publications
1. Cosentino, E., Baggio, G., Kontinen, J., & Werning, M. (2017). The time-course of sentence meaning composition. N400 effects of the interaction between context-induced and lexically stored affordances. Frontiers in Psychology, 8 (823).
2. Werning, M., & Cosentino, E. (2017). The Interaction of Bayesian Pragmatics and Lexical Semantics in Linguistic Interpretation: Using Event-related Potentials to Investigate Hearers’ Probabilistic Predictions. In G. Gunzelmann et al. (Eds.), (pp. 3504–3509). Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, London, Austin, TX.
3. Cosentino, E., Baggio, G., Kontinen, J., Garwels, T., and Werning, M. (2014). Lexicon in action: N400 effect on affordances and telicity. In P. Bello et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2079-84.
4. Reuter, K., Werning, M., Kuchinke, L., & Cosentino, E. (2017). Reading Words Hurts: The impact of pain sensitivity on people’s ratings of pain-related words. Language and Cognition, 9, 553–567.
5. Spychalska, M., Kontinen, J., & Werning, M. (2016). Investigating scalar implicatures in a truth-value judgement task: evidence from event-related brain potentials. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31(6), 817–840.
6. Spychalska, M., Kontinen, J., Roesch, L. & Werning, M. (2016). Exploring the processing costs of the exactly and at least readings of bare numerals with event-related brain potentials. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2079-84.
7. Werning, M. (2004). Compositionaltity, context, categories and the indeterminacy of translation. Erkenntnis, 60, 145–78.
8. Werning, M. (2005b). The temporal dimension of thought: Cortical foundations of predicative representation. Synthese, 146(1–2), 203–224.
9. Werning, M.(2010). Complex first? On the evolutionary and developmental priority of semantically thick words. Philosophy of Science, 77, 1096–1108
10. Mroczko-Wasowicz, A., & Werning, M. (2012). Synesthesia, sensory-motor contingency, and semantic emulation: How swimming style-color synesthesia challenges the traditional view of synesthesia. Frontiers in Psychology, 3(279).
11. Unterhuber, & Schurz, G. (2013). The New Tweety Puzzle. Synthese, 190, 1407–1435.
Further Resources
Link to the Project Description on the SPP XPrag Website
