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  • Accounting for the preference for literal meanings in autism spectrum conditions 
    Vicente, Agustín; Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Pragmatic difficulties are considered a hallmark of autism spectrum conditions (ASC), but remain poorly understood. We discuss and evaluate existing hypotheses regarding the literalism of ASC individuals, that is, their ...
  • Children's metonymy comprehension: Evidence from eye-tracking and picture selection 
    Köder, Franziska; Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    In this paper we investigate children's processing and comprehension of metonymy, a type of figurative use of language where an object or individual is referred to via a salient property (e.g., The beard used to refer to ...
  • The how and why of polysemy: A pragmatic account 
    Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
    A large number of word forms in natural language are polysemous, that is, associated with several related senses (e.g., line, run, tight, etc.). While such polysemy appears to cause little difficulty in verbal communication, ...
  • Intonational production as a window into children’s early pragmatic competence: The case of the Norwegian polarity focus and two jo particles 
    Helganger, Line Sjøtun; Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    The use of the Norwegian intonation pattern Polarity Focus highlights the polarity of a contextually given thought and enables the speaker to signal whether she believes it to be a true or false description of some state ...
  • Irony and perspective-taking in children: The roles of norm violations and tone of voice 
    Köder, Franziska; Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    In order to understand most, if not any communicative act, the listener needs to make inferences about what the speaker intends to convey. This perspective-taking process is especially challenging in the case of nonliteral ...
  • Kognitiv pragmatikk og relevansteori 
    Falkum, Ingrid Lossius; Kjøll, Georg (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
    Pragmatikk som fagfelt kan defineres som studier av språk i bruk, og kan i sin videste form omfatte undersøkelser av både kognitive, sosiale og kulturelle aspekter ved kommunikasjon (Verschueren et al. 1995: 2). Kognitiv ...
  • The lexical pragmatics of count-mass polysemy 
    Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    This paper investigates a subtype of systematic polysemy which in English (and several other languages) appears to rest on the distinction between count and mass uses of nouns (e.g., shoot a rabbit/eat rabbit/wear rabbit). ...
  • "The moustache sits down first": on the acquisition of metonymy 
    Falkum, Ingrid Lossius; Recasens, Marta; Clark, Eve V. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    This study investigates preschoolers’ ability to understand and produce novel metonyms. We gave forty-seven children (aged 2;9–5;9) and twenty-seven adults one comprehension task and two elicitation tasks. The first ...
  • Polysemi. En relevansteoretisk tilnærming 
    Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
    I denne artikkelen diskuterer jeg fenomenet polysemi, der et språklig uttrykk innehar to eller flere beslektede betydninger (et eksempel er adjektivet frisk, som kan bety ‘uskjemt’, ‘ny’, ‘sunn’, ‘livlig’, ‘dristig’, ...
  • The acquisition of figurative meanings 
    Falkum, Ingrid Lossius; Köder, Franziska (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
  • The development of non-literal uses of language: Sense conventions and pragmatic competence 
    Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    A growing body of developmental evidence suggests that the cognitive abilities that enable the expression and comprehension of communicative intentions – so-called pragmatic abilities – which underlie language use and ...
  • 'The moustache' returns: referential metonymy acquisition in adult learners of English as an additional language (EAL) 
    Bowerman, Josephine; Falkum, Ingrid Lossius; Pouscoulous, Nausicaa (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    abstract Referential metonymy, e.g. ‘ the moustache (= man with a moustache) sits down first’, appears early in L1 acquisition (Falkum, Recasens & Clark, 2017). Yet how does it emerge in pragmatically mature but ...