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THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF
EXPERIMENTAL SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS
Edited by
CHRIS CUMMINS
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NAPOLEON KATSOS
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WE would like to express our gratitude to our colleagues who paved the way in experimental semantics and pragmatics and inspired us, among many others, to pursue research in this area. Through their work, they not only staked out a new field of enquiry, but created outstanding opportunities to bring scholars together to work in it, such as the XPrag conferences and the Euro-XPrag network (supported by the European Science Foundation). Our thanks go to the contributors to this volume for their enthusiastic support of this enterprise, their insight, and their professionalism, and for reminding us once again of the breadth as well as the depth of experimental semantic and pragmatic research. Thanks also to three anonymous reviewers for their important and astute comments at a very early stage that helped to shape the structure and content of this volume. Finally, our thanks go to the late John Davey who responded so positively from our initial contact with Oxford University Press, and to Julia Steer and Vicki Sunter, for their kind (and crucial) support and assistance throughout the project.
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A&P | Alxatib and Pelletier (2011) |
ACD | Antecedent-Contained Deletion |
AOC | Adjectives of Comparison |
AQ | Autism-spectrum Quotient |
ASD | Autism Spectrum Disorder |
B&L | Brown and Levinson (1987) |
BMBF | Bundesministerium fr Bildung und Forschung |
BOVW | Bonini et al. (1997) |
CA | Conversation Analysis |
CLT | Construal Level Theory (Trope & Liberman 2003) |
CP | Cooperative Principle (Grice, 1975) |
DAAD | Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst |
DE | downward entailing |
DFG | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
DP | Determiner Phrase |
DRS | Discourse Representation Structure (Kamp, 1981) |
DRT | Discourse Representation Theory (Kamp, 1981) |
EE | Embedded (Scalar) Enrichments |
EEG | electroencephalography |
ERP | Event-Related Potential |
ESF | European Science Foundation |
ESRC | Economic and Social Research Council |
FA | false affirmative |
FBT | False Belief Task |
fMRI | Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
FN | false negative |
FoR | Frame of Reference |
FTO | Floor Transfer Offset (De Ruiter et al., 2006) |
GaD | Generics-as-Default |
GOG | Generic Overgeneralization |
GQT | Generalized Quantifier Theory |
GT | Grammatical Theory (of scalar implicature) |
IC | Implicit Causality |
II | Ignorance Inferences |
IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
ISI | inter-stimulus interval |
LF | Logical Form |
LP | Logic of Paradox (Priest, 1979) |
LSA | Linguistic Society of America |