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#1 Contrastive utterances make alternatives salient - cross-modal priming evidence [PDF1] [Copy] [Kimi] [REL]

Authors: Bettina Braun, Lara Tagliapietra, Anne Cutler

Sentences with contrastive intonation are assumed to presuppose contextual alternatives to the accented elements. Two cross-modal priming experiments tested in Dutch whether such contextual alternatives are automatically available to listeners. Contrastive associates - but not non-contrastive associates - were facilitated only when primes were produced in sentences with contrastive intonation, indicating that contrastive intonation makes unmentioned contextual alternatives immediately available. Possibly, contrastive contours trigger a "presupposition resolution mechanism" by which these alternatives become salient.