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    "pk": 29570,
    "title": "Probability and processing speed of scalar inferences is context-dependent",
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    "abstract": "Studies addressing the question of whether scalar inferencesgenerally incur a processing cost have yielded conflicting re-sults. Constraint-based accounts, which seek to unify theseconflicting results, make a prediction which we test here: theprobability of an interpretation and the speed with which it isprocessed depends on the contextual support it receives. Wemanipulated contextual support for the scalar inference in twotruth-value judgment experiments by manipulating a lexicalfeature (presence of partitive “of the”) and a pragmatic fea-ture (the implicit Question Under Discussion). Participants’responder type – whether their majority response was prag-matic (reflecting the inference) or literal (reflecting its absence)– was the main predictor of response times: pragmatic re-sponses were faster than literal responses when generated bypragmatic responders; the reverse was true for literal respon-ders. We interpret this as further evidence against costly infer-ence accounts and in support of constraint-based accounts ofpragmatic processing.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "psycholinguistics; experimental pragmatics;scalar inference; Question Under Discussion"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Poster Session 1",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3rt8763c",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Leyla",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kursat",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Judith",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Degen",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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