Though these may not be what you are looking for nor are they from a RT perspective, you may wish to check out the studies from a stratificational approach by Peter Reich on slips of the tongues and puns. His main concern is primarily neuro-cognitive (including material brain function). Warning, he is not exploring inference, etc. However, one studying the issue may find these interesting.
"Evidence for a Stratal Boundary from Slips of the Tongue," Forum Linguisticum 2 (1977): 119-32.
"Unintended Puns," in the Eleventh LACUS Forum 1984, ed. R. A. Hall (Columbia: SC: Hornbeam Press, Inc., 1985), 314-22.
And Gary Dell with Reich:
"Slips of the Tongue: The Facts and a Stratificational Model," In Rice University Studies: Papers in Cognitive-Stratificational Linguistics, vol. 66 no. 2, ed. J. E. Copeland and P. W. Davis (Houston, TX: William Marsh Rice University, 1998), 16-34.
Joe Fantin
Sheffield
In a message dated Thu, 16 Mar 2000 7:00:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, "S. Skoufaki" <SS346@hermes.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> Dear members,
> Does anybody know of any experiment done on the comprehension of
> intentionally ambiguous utterances (e.g. puns, pragmatically ambiguous
> utterances)?
> Thank you,
> Sophia Skoufaki.
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