TY - SLIDE TI - (A-)Symmetry in presupposition projection: Experimental data on conjunction and disjunction A2 - Schwarz, Florian AB - Presuppositions, a sub-type of meaning consisting of backgrounded content that is typically taken for granted, characteristically ‘project’, i.e., they survive embedding under various entailment-canceling operators. Accounting for projection patterns has been a core theoretical focus in the literature, which has led to several proposals situated within different perspectives on the semantics-pragmatics interface. However, much less is known about the real-time cognitive processes involved in comprehending presuppositions and deriving their projected interpretations, even though some recent theoretical proposals crucially allude to the time-course imposed by left-to-right processing. I present experimental studies of projection out of conjunctions and disjunctions, using an inference task and visual world eye-tracking to explore the role of left-to-right processing in projection. The results for conjunction provide clear evidence for asymmetry in projection, and visual world results for disjunction are consistent with the notion that projection takes place fast enough in online processing to yield asymmetric effects based on the unfolding linear order. However, new results from an ongoing study using an inference task for projection from disjunction suggest that the empirical picture with regards to projection asymmetries may be more complex. I discuss the relation of these results to the broader theoretical landscape, as well as to earlier results that suggest that projection takes time in online processing. CY - Leibniz Center for General Linguistics ZAS Berlin DA - 2017/// PY - 2017 ER -