PSYC 432 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: High-Functioning Autism, Homophone
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Basnakova et al. (2013): indirect vs. direct responses. Increased activity for indirect responses, compared with activity for direct. What kinds of inferences do we need to make during language comprehension? (cid:498)some(cid:499) interpretation: (cid:498)some tuna are fish(cid:499: pragmatic vs. literal interpretation interpret more easily and more quickly. Semantic = the (cid:498)literal(cid:499) meaning of the linguistic input. Ex: (cid:498)some tuna are fish(cid:499) true. Pragmatic = the (cid:498)indirect(cid:499) meaning inferred from the context. Ex: (cid:498)some tuna are fish(cid:499) scalar inference suggests that not. Bott & noveck (2004): told people to read sentences with conventional meaning vs. the implied, and judge a sentence to be true. Literal semantic meaning seemed to be easier prefer this all are fish. De neys & schaeken (2007): memorize a dot pattern that is easy or hard, then judge a sentence more pragmatic responses in the easy condition. Speed to respond for pragmatic responses is faster in easy condition.
