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Pragmatic language disorder in Parkinson's disease and the potential effect of cognitive reserve [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
It is known that patients with Parkinson\u2019s Disease (PD) may show deficits in several areas of cognition, including speech and language abilities.
Arcara, G.   +5 more
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The Experimental Turn in Philosophical Pragmatics

open access: yesHumana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2012
Francesca Ervas, Elisabetta Gola
doaj   +2 more sources

Developing Pragmatic Awareness of Requests in the EFL Classroom: A Focus on Instructional Effects [PDF]

open access: yesResearch in English Language Pedagogy, 2023
Explicit teaching of pragmatics to second language learners has been studied by a large number of researchers. However, the review of the related studies shows that while some researchers believe in the effectiveness of explicit instruction of pragmatics,
Sadegh Sadeghinezhad
doaj   +1 more source

Linking Hypothesis and Number of Response Options Modulate Inferred Scalar Implicature Rate

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
The past 15 years have seen increasing experimental investigations of core pragmatic questions in the ever more active and lively field of experimental pragmatics.
Masoud Jasbi   +2 more
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Measuring reformulation through eye-tracking. The role of reformulation markers in establishing reformulation: an experimental approach

open access: yesCírculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2022
This paper builds on the notion of reformulation as a category which can be distinguished from other closer functions (paraphrase, conclusion, correction) (Pons Bordería, 2013, 2017).
Shima Salameh Jiménez
doaj   +1 more source

The Understanding of Scalar Implicatures in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Dichotomized Responses to Violations of Informativeness

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
This study investigated the understanding of underinformative sentences like “Some elephants have trunks” by children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Walter Schaeken   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reclamation: Taking Back Control of Words [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Reclamation is the phenomenon of an oppressed group repurposing language to its own ends. A case study is reclamation of slur words. Popa-Wyatt and Wyatt (2018) argued that a slurring utterance is a speech act which performs a discourse role assignment ...
Popa-Wyatt, Mihaela
core  

Not knowing a cat is a cat: analyticity and knowledge ascriptions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
It is a natural assumption in mainstream epistemological theory that ascriptions of knowledge of a proposition p track strength of epistemic position vis-à-vis p.
Carter, J. Adam   +2 more
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Cognitive Processing of Verbal Quantifiers in the Context of Affirmative and Negative Sentences: a Croatian Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Studies from English and German have found differences in the processing of affirmative and negative sentences. However, little attention has been given to quantifiers that form negations.
Bogunović, Irena, Ćoso, Bojana
core   +1 more source

Believing What You're Told: Politeness and Scalar Inferences

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
The experimental pragmatics literature has extensively investigated the ways in which distinct contextual factors affect the computation of scalar inferences, whose most studied example is the one that allows “Some X-ed” to mean Not all X-ed.
Diana Mazzarella   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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