What’s the Alternative? Experimental Research on the Extent of Focus Alternative Sets
Anna-Lisa Ndao, Katharina Spalek · Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen · 2019
According to alternative semantics (Rooth, 1985, 1992), the main function of focus is to evoke contextually relevant alternatives for a focused element. The present study uses a cross-modal priming experiment to investigate the extent of these focus alternative sets that are being activated in the listeners' minds when processing a focused element.