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Psycholinguistics Coffee

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Informal Meeting to Discuss Psycholinguistic Research

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Please join us for the following talk in room S38 7GS. The link to the online Teams meeting will be sent to the mailing list closer to the time for those who cannot join us in Edinburgh.

 

Speaker

Paula Bull-Morales

 

Time and date

December 4th, 2 PM.

 

Title and abstract

Are pragmatic representations shared or separate in bilinguals?

 

Utterances communicate much more than the literal meaning of the words (Grice, 1989). For example, “John drank some of his coffee” implies that John did not drink all of his coffee, even though the words do not literally say this. While bilingualism literature has investigated the syntactic, lexical and conceptual representations of bilinguals (e.g., Hartsuiker et al., 2004; Kroll & Stewart,1994; McElree et al. 2000), little work has been conducted to test how pragmatic structures are represented in bilinguals. We present evidence from two cross-linguistic priming experiments that point to language-specific pragmatic structures in Spanish-English bilinguals, underpinned by shared conceptual representations.

 

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