TY - SLIDE TI - The impact of presuppositions on interpretation - go back vs. return T2 - CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 30 A2 - Zehr, Jérémy A2 - Schwarz, Florian AB - We test the removability/independence (RI) hypothesis, according to which presupposed and entailed contents are treated independently in cases where presuppositions are exclusively contributed by safely removable linguistic material. We use a Covered Box design to test five presupposition triggers differing in that respect: also/again/back (removable and independent) vs. return/stop (not removable, complex contribution). Our results do not support the RI hypothesis, but reveal an important role of lexical variability. We argue that modern pragmatic accounts of presuppositions need to incorporate lexical specificities of triggers. CY - MIT DA - 2017/// PY - 2017 ER -