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Focus alternatives in the human mind: Retrieval, representation, and recall

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indicates representation neural construct mind alternatives behavioural semantics sentences brings brain neuroimaging literal basis input linguistic language human theoretical side convincing people potentials cognitive rarely lexical tool question linguists nsf individual first written interpretation scientists activates questions structure differences formal hence sentence phrase german cognitively examine mean innovative foundation critically structural behavioral retrieval speech expresses ask conceptualisation erc teachers myself shown regression speaker lies cues content recall event combination utterance understand erps reflected explore alternative optimally decision

Project "FAHMRRR" data sheet

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Coordinator	HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET ZU BERLIN Organization address address: UNTER DEN LINDEN 6 city: BERLIN postcode: 10117 website: www.hu-berlin.de contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Germany [DE]
Project website	https://www.projekte.hu-berlin.de/de/fahmrrr
Total cost	1˙154˙438 €
EC max contribution	1˙154˙438 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
Code Call	ERC-2015-STG
Funding Scheme	ERC-STG
Starting year	2016
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2016-06-01 to 2020-11-30

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET ZU BERLIN HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET ZU BERLIN Organization address address: UNTER DEN LINDEN 6 city: BERLIN postcode: 10117 website: www.hu-berlin.de contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	DE (BERLIN)	coordinator	1˙154˙438.00

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Project objective

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, but a number of researchers, myself included, have shown that it is also cognitively real. I propose to further investigate representation, retrieval and recall of an alternative set. First, I will ask the novel question if the decision to focus a phrase activates alternatives in the speaker’s mind. I will explore this with behavioural measures and event-related brain potentials (ERPs). This question brings together two areas of speech production which are rarely considered side by side: conceptualisation and lexical access. Second, I will examine the neural representation of focus alternatives with neuroimaging. While there is convincing evidence for the cognitive reality of focus alternatives, we do not know how this is reflected in the brain. Finally, I will explore individual differences in processing focus information, using large-scale regression analyses. The aim is to understand which abilities enable a human language user to optimally use the focus information provided by the linguistic input. The project’s innovative potential lies both in its questions and in the combination of methods: neuroimaging, ERPs, a range of behavioral measures, and individual differences approaches, which, in combination, will critically advance our understanding of the cognitive and neural basis of processing information structural cues. The findings will be of interest not only to linguists and cognitive scientists, but also to language teachers and people who use language as a tool.

Publications

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year	authors and title	journal	last update
2019	Katharina Spalek, Yulia Oganian The neurocognitive signature of focus alternatives published pages: 98-108, ISSN: 0093-934X, DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2019.04.007	Brain and Language 194	2019-09-04
2019	Anna-Lisa Ndao, Katharina Spalek What\'s the alternative? Experimental research on the extent of focus alternative sets published pages: 32-44, ISSN: , DOI: 10.15496/publikation-32632	Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2018: Experimental Data Drives Linguistic Theory	2019-08-29

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