## Q&A ## I'll be actively around OSF for questions during poster session A on Thursday (12-2pm US Eastern). Use the comment function in the upper right hand corner (the little speech bubble) if there's anything you want to discuss while looking at the poster or afterwards. NOTE: Comments may either show up on this intro page, or on the page where you look at the video, so try both if you're looking for previous comments. If you want to see replies - in case there are any - click on the '+' on the comment. Also feel free to shoot me an email at any point: agoebel@umass.edu --- ## Abstract ## This poster presents two experiments - an AJT and an SPR - investigating differences in accommodation difficulty across different presupposition triggers. The hypothesis tested was that Focus-sensitive triggers require linguistic antecedent, whereas triggers lacking Focus-sensitivity require their presupposition to be entailed by the common ground, which is by assumption governed by cooperative principles. The prediction was that Focus-sensitive triggers would be harder to accommodate than those that are not Focus-sensitive due to the inability for linguistic antecedents to be repaired. This hypothesis was supported by the rating study across four different pairs of triggers from each class, as well as tentatively by the self-paced reading results once trial order was taken into account. The results thus suggest that presuppositions may be rooted in distinct representations depending on their Focus-sensitivity, and yields insights into the limits of contextual repair mechanisms.