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This project investigates how the focus of a phrase in language activates alternative meanings in the speaker's mind. It combines behavioral measures and neuroimaging techniques to explore the cognitive and neural processes involved in understanding focus information in speech.
The sentences: “I have written a proposal for the ERC” and “It is for the ERC that I have written a proposal” mean the same, but they have a different focus structure. A focused element like “It is for the ERC” indicates that alternatives are relevant for the interpretation of the utterance.
Hence, the sentence expresses, in addition to its literal content, that the proposal is not for the NSF or the German Research Foundation.
The alternative set is a theoretical construct from formal semantics…
HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET ZU BERLIN
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