- Abstract:
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Metonymic verbs like start or enjoy often occur with artifact-denoting complements (e.g., The artist started the picture) although semantically they require event-denoting complements (e.g., The artist started painting the picture). In case of artifact-denoting objects, the complement is assumed to be type shifted (or coerced) into an event to conform to the verb s semantic restrictions. Psycholinguistic research has provided evidence for this kind of enriched composition: readers experience processing difficulty when faced with metonymic constructions compared to non-metonymic controls. However, slower reading times for metonymic constructions could also be due to competition between multiple interpretations that are being entertained in parallel whenever a metonymic verb is encountered. Using the visual-world paradigm, we devised an experiment which enabled us to determine the time course of metonymic interpretation in relation to non-metonymic controls. The experiment provided evidence in favor of a non-competitive, serial coercion process.
- Links To Paper
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- Bibtex format
- @Article{EDI-INF-RR-1022,
- author = {
Christoph Scheepers
and Frank Keller
and Mirella Lapata
},
- title = {Evidence for serial coercion: A time course analysis using the visual-world paradigm},
- journal = {Cognitive Psychology},
- publisher = {Elsevier},
- year = 2007,
- pages = {1-29},
- doi = {10.1016/j.cogpsych.2006.10.001},
- url = {http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/keller/papers/cogpsy07.html},
- }
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