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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 2336-2347, November 2025.ABSTRACT Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often face challenges in pragmatic language use, particularly in foreign language learning contexts, yet the specific factors influencing pragmatic competence in these environments remain underexplored.
Gülşah Tıkız‐Ertürk +1 more
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Investigating the timecourse of accessing conversational implicatures during incremental sentence interpretation [PDF]
, 2013 Many contextual inferences in utterance interpretation are explained as following from the nature of conversation and the assumption that participants are rational.
Altmann G. +18 more
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Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 10, October 2025.ABSTRACT Recent philosophy of language has seen a growing interest in what is often called the dynamics of conversation or conversational scorekeeping, that is, the ways in which speech and context mutually interact in the course of a conversation.
Lars Dänzer +2 more
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It's not what you said, it's the way you said it: slurs and conventional implicatures
, 2013 In this paper, I defend against a number of criticisms an account of slurs, according to which the same semantic content is expressed in the use of a slur (e.g. 'chink') as is expressed in the use of its neutral counterpart (e.g.
Whiting, Daniel
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Extending the Architecture of Language From a Multimodal Perspective
Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 17, Issue 4, Page 877-887, October 2025.Abstract Language is inherently multimodal. In spoken languages, combined spoken and visual signals (e.g., co‐speech gestures) are an integral part of linguistic structure and language representation. This requires an extension of the parallel architecture, which needs to include the visual signals concomitant to speech. We present the evidence for the
Peter Hagoort, Aslı Özyürek
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This paper advances the following criticisms against the received view of implicatures: (1) implicatures are relations of pragmatic implication and not attempts to convey particular speaker meanings; (2) conversational implicatures are non-cancellable ...
Silva, Matheus
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only: A Case Study In Projective Meaning
The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2010 I offer an integrated theory of the meaning of only in which the prejacent, while not presupposed, is both entailed and backgrounded, hence tends to project (following a general proposal about projection due to Simons et al. 2010).
Craige Roberts
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Language Learning, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 898-929, September 2025.Abstract A handful of second language (L2) studies have explored bidirectional pragmatic transfer: forward pragmatic transfer—the influence of learners' first language (L1) on their L2—and reverse pragmatic transfer—the impact of learners' L2 on their L1.
Ying Zhang (she/her)
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Truth‐Value Judgment Tasks in Second Language Research
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 5, September/October 2025.ABSTRACT This paper provides a focused review of truth‐value judgment tasks (TVJTs) as a method for eliciting interpretations in adult second language learners. We present the historical perspectives, the rationale for their use, the nature of the knowledge they target, and critical design considerations. Additionally, we discuss their effectiveness in
Shaohua Fang, Elaine J. Francis
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IsoglossThe goal of this paper is to account for the variable agreement properties of the 1PL pronoun a gente in Brazilian Portuguese. We argue that previous approaches make wrong predictions about how different types of agreement with a gente work in different
Giuseppe Varaschin +1 more
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