Interpretation and garden-path effet
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- Marisa Díez Arroyo (ES) Universidad de Oviedo
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This paper tries to prove that Sperber & Wilson's Relevance Theory needs to be implemented with a psycholinguistic theory of language processing in order to effectively account for punning. To see the extent of this claim I suggest a crosslinguistic comparison (English-Spanish) at three levels of ambiguity: syntactic, lexical and phonetic.
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