{"pk":49368,"title":"Individual differences in the delay effect across scales","subtitle":null,"abstract":"For more than two decades, researchers have been trying to\nexplain the source of the processing cost of scalar implicature\n(SI). Although the computation of some SIs is associated\nwith longer processing time (known as the delay effect),\nother SIs are processed cost-free. In this study, we investigated\nhow individual differences in the rate of SI derivation\nmodulate the delay effect across different scales. We reanalyzed\nfour datasets from two SI verification task studies,\nwhich examined various scales. In these experiments, participants\njudged SI-triggering sentences as either true (literal\nreading) or false (SI reading). We fit a computational model to\nquantify the by-subject probability of computing SIs. Across\ndatasets, we found that subjects who prefer the literal reading\nof the SI-triggering sentence were faster to respond true than\nfalse. However, the reading preferences modulate the verification\nspeed differently for different scales. This suggests that\nthe source of the delay effect might vary between scales.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Linguistics; Psychology; Language Comprehension; Language understanding; Pragmatics; Semantics of language; Computational Modeling; Mathematical modeling"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9s40f8sn","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Sonia","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ramotowska","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Amsterdam","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49368/galley/37330/download/"}]}