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Frontiers 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
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Relevance and Conditionals: A Synopsis of Open Pragmatic and Semantic Issues [PDF]
, 2020 Recently several papers have reported relevance effects on the cognitive assessments of indicative conditionals, which pose an explanatory challenge to the Suppositional Theory of conditionals advanced by David Over, which is influential in the ...
Skovgaard-Olsen, Niels
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Pragmatic language disorder in Parkinson's disease and the potential effect of cognitive reserve [PDF]
, 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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Believing What You're Told: Politeness and Scalar Inferences
Frontiers 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
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Emoji-based reactions to the said construction in spanish and english
Cadernos de Linguística, 2021 The said construction (SC), a relatively common but understudied standard English construction, is usually characterized by the use of said in place of a determiner, followed by a noun (N2), typically given (in some sense) and licensed by an antecedent ...
Alicia Stevers
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SpringerPlus, 2016 For more than 70 years, Piaget’s class-inclusion task (given, e.g., five asters and three tulips, the child is asked whether “there are more asters or more flowers”) has been the object of experimental investigation.
G. Politzer
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 A prevalent, but to date untested, assumption about lexicalized scalar implicatures such as those from some to not all, is that they fall into the class of GCIs and as such, constitute a homogeneous class of highly regularized and context-independent ...
Judith Degen
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Reclamation: Taking Back Control of Words [PDF]
, 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
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Pre-Stimulus Activity of Left and Right TPJ in Linguistic Predictive Processing: A MEG Study
Brain SciencesBackground. The left and right temporoparietal junctions (TPJs) are two brain areas involved in several brain networks, largely studied for their diverse roles, from attentional orientation to theory of mind and, recently, predictive processing.
Sara Lago +3 more
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Bias in polar questions: Evidence from English and German production experiments
Glossa, 2017 Different polar question forms (e.g., Do you / Do you not / Don’t you / Really? Do you... have a car?) are not equally appropriate in all situations.
Bettina Braun +2 more
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