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Arbeitsgruppe Experimentelle Pragmatik

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Working Group Experimental Pragmatics

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The Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics group focuses on interpretation of meaning and uses experimental methods from psycholinguistics to investigate how complex meaning emerges in real time in language processing. We study incremental meaning construction from the sentence level to the discourse level.

We conduct experiments on a regular basis. Read more on our laboratory page.

Currently

The Experimental Pragmatics group has taken up project work in two CRC projects in the CRC 1646 Linguistic Creativity in Communication: Project B01 investigates coercion as a creative mechanism in compositional interporetation and in the public relations project Ö we are working on citizen science in linguistic research. The CRC has been funded by the DFG since April 2024.

Publications

  • Cataphoric resolution of projective content: The case of occasion verbs.
    Solstad T, Bott O (2024)
    Semantics and Pragmatics 2024;17(11):1-59.
  • Tense and Aspect (substantive revision)
    Bott O, Hamm F (2024)
    In: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Zalta EN, Nodelman U (Eds); Stanford University: Metaphysics Research Lab.
  • Implicit Causality and Consequentiality of Action Verbs
    Solstad T, Bott O (2023)
    Frontiers in Language Sciences. 2023;2: 1143214.
  • The Production of Referring Expressions is Influenced by the Likelihood of Next Mention
    Solstad T, Bott O (2023)
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 2023:17470218231157268

Presentations

  • Neglect-Zero effects in the interpretation of quantifiers and disjunction 
    Oliver Bott, Fabian Schlotterbeck, Tomasz Klochowicz, Sonia Ramotowska, Maria Aloni
    Presented at Sinn und Bedeutung conference 2024.
  • Abductive inferences in causal discourse: Evidence from eyetracking during reading
    Oliver Bott, Torgrim Solstad
    Presented at the ELM conference 2024.
  • A conceptual analysis of verbs of pushing and pulling
    Anton Benz, Torgrim Solstad, Oliver Bott, Martin Kahnberg, Andrea C. Schalley
    Presented at the ELM conference 2024.
  • Processing non-culminating accomplishments across languages
    Oliver Bott,Torgrim Solstad, Jens Michaelis (2024)
    Presented at the CogSci 2024, Rotterdam.
  • Causal abductive reasoning in discourse processing: Evidence from eye tracking
    Torgrim Solstad, Oliver Bott
    Presented at the Amsterdam Colloquium 2024