{"pk":28449,"title":"(In-)definites, (anti-)uniqueness, and uniqueness expectations","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Using “A” in noun phrases such as “A father of the vic-tim” is odd, which is commonly explained by the princi-ple Maximize Presupposition, requiring speakers to usethe alternative with the strongest presupposition (here“The”, given its uniqueness presupposition). This re-sults in an anti-uniqueness inference for “A” (clashingwith stereotypical expectations here), sometimes labelledas an ‘anti-presupposition’ (Percus, 2006), as it derivesfrom reasoning over the presuppositions of alternativeforms. We compare these inferences to the uniquenessinferences associated with definites, while manipulatinguniqueness expectations in a picture manipulation taskusing visual world eye-tracking. This offers a minimalcomparison of uniqueness-based inferences that are lexi-cally encoded vs. pragmatically inferred, and furthermoretests the prediction that the accommodatability of the def-inite’s presupposition plays a role in the derivation of anti-uniqueness inferences (Rouillard & Schwarz, 2017).","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"presuppositions; visual world eye-tracking;definiteness; indefiniteness"}],"section":"Papers with Oral Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/00d242wq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Nadine","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bade","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Tubingen","department":""},{"first_name":"Florian","middle_name":"","last_name":"Schwarz","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pennsylvania","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28449/galley/18320/download/"}]}