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Filik, Ruth; Leuthold, Hartmut; Wallington, Katie; Page, Jemma – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Not much is known about how people comprehend ironic utterances, and to date, most studies have simply compared processing of ironic versus non-ironic statements. A key aspect of the graded salience hypothesis, distinguishing it from other accounts (such as the standard pragmatic view and direct access view), is that it predicts differences…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Cognitive Measurement, Figurative Language, Language Processing
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?urcan, Alexandra; Filik, Ruth – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
This article addresses a current theoretical debate between the standard pragmatic model, the graded salience hypothesis, and the implicit display theory, by investigating the roles of the context and of the properties of the sarcastic utterance itself in the comprehension of a sarcastic remark. Two eye-tracking experiments were conducted where we…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Familiarity, Language Processing, Language Usage
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Paterson, Kevin B.; Liversedge, Simon P.; White, Diane; Filik, Ruth; Jaz, Kristina – Language Acquisition, 2006
We report 3 studies investigating children's and adults' interpretation of ambiguous focus in sentences containing the focus-sensitive quantifier only. In each experiment, child and adult participants compared sentences with only in a preverbal position and counterpart sentences without only against a series of pictures depicting events that…
Descriptors: Sentences, Children, Adults, Comparative Analysis