学术讲座 | 孙超:标量含义的解释与加工
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讲座信息
题目:标量含义的解释与加工
时间:2019年9月27日(周五)10:00
地点:上海外国语大学松江校区
教室:行政楼129室
主讲:孙超博士
主办:语言研究院
讲座概要
Language comprehension involves much more than access to word meaning and syntactic structure, it essentially involves listeners making inferences about speakers’ intentions. From the perspective of language processing, the question is then about how linguistic input and pragmatic inference is integrated and interpreted in our mind. In this talk I will focus on one type of pragmatic inference – scalar implicature. I will address two specific questions around scalar implicature: (i) whether there is a delay in integrating the scalar implicature compared to accessing the literal meaning, and (ii) whether different scalar words may be interpreted and processed differently.
Regarding the time course question, two processing models based on different implementations of Grice’s framework have been proposed. In the literal-first model linguistic meaning gains priority over pragmatically derived inferences, whereas in the parallel processing model all information can be processed in parallel. I will argue for the parallel processing model, in particular, I will present an eye-tracking study investigating the online processing of scalar implicatures from ‘some’ to ‘not all’ in a novel visual-world design. I will show that the pragmatic interpretation of ‘some’ is processed as quickly as the literal interpretation, casting doubt on the literal-first model.
Much previous work on scalar implicatures has been concerned almost exclusively with only two scales
主讲人介绍
Research summary
Area Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics
Topics Implicatures, Focus particles, Prosody, Scope, Donkey anaphora, Negation, Emoticon
Methods Psycholinguistic methods (behavioural studies, eye-tracking), Corpus, Language modeling
Academic positions
2018-2020 Postdoctoral researcher, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• PI: Prof. Dr. Katharina Spalek
• Project: Focus alternatives in the human mind (ERC Horizon 2020)
2018 Research fellow, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) Berlin
2017 Autumn Research assistant (part-time), Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh.
Publications
Journal papers
Resubmitted Sun, C. & Breheny, R. Another look at the online processing of scalar inferences: an investigation
of conflicting findings from visual-world eye-tracking studies. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience.
2019 van Tiel, B., Pankratz, E., & Sun, C. Scales and scalarity: Processing scalar inferences. Journal of Memory and Language, 105, 93-107.
2018 Sun, C., Breheny, R., & Tian, Y. A link between local pragmatic enrichment and scalar diversity. Frontiers in psychology, 9, 2092.
Conference Proceedings with peer-reviewed abstracts
Accepted Sun, C., Breheny, R., & Rothschild, D. Exploring the existential/universal ambiguity in singular donkey sentences. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24
2019 van Tiel, B., Pankratz, E., Marty, P., & Sun, C. Scalar inferences and cognitive load. In: M.Teresa Espinal et al. (Eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 23, 2, 427–441.
2018 Sun, C.& Breheny, R. Shared mechanism underlying unembedded and embedded enrichments:
Evidence from enrichment priming. In Sauerland, U. & Solt, S. (Eds.). Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, 2, 425-441.
2017 Tian, Y., Galery, T., Dulcinati, G., Molimpakis, E., & Sun, C. Facebook sentiment: reactions and emojis. In Ku, L. & Li, C. (Eds.). Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media, 11-16.
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