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Investigating the distribution of some (but not all) implicatures using corpora and web-based methods

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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Pre-Stimulus Activity of Left and Right TPJ in Linguistic Predictive Processing: A MEG Study

Brain Sciences
Background. 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, Sara Zago, Valentina Bambini, Giorgio Arcara   +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, Filippo Domaneschi, Maribel Romero   +2 more
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Limits to the Rational Production of Discourse Connectives

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Rational accounts of language use such as the uniform information density hypothesis, which asserts that speakers distribute information uniformly across their utterances, and the rational speech act (RSA) model, which suggests that speakers optimize the
Frances Yung, Jana Jungbluth, Vera Demberg, Vera Demberg   +3 more
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Singular they in context

Glossa, 2020
There is a growing experimental and theoretical literature on singular they, much of it focusing on the nature of the antecedents it takes (Foertsch & Gernsbacher 1997; Bjorkman 2017; Doherty & Conklin 2017; Prasad 2017; Ackerman et al.
Chung-Hye Han, Holly Gendron, Keir Moulton, Sander Nederveen, Trevor Block   +4 more
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The brain is a prediction machine that cares about good and bad - Any implications for neuropragmatics? [PDF]

, 2010
Experimental pragmatics asks how people construct contextualized meaning in communication. So what does it mean for this field to add neuroas a prefix to its name?
Van Berkum, J.
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Dynamic Semantics [PDF]

, 2017
This article focuses on foundational issues in dynamic and static semantics, specifically on what is conceptually at stake between the dynamic framework and the truth-conditional framework, and consequently what kinds of evidence support each framework ...
Lewis, Karen S.
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Why and When Are Evidence‐Based Interventions Adopted in Paediatric Supportive Care? A Qualitative Exploration of the Determinants of Photobiomodulation Implementation

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Oral mucositis is a common and debilitating side effect of childhood cancer and stem cell transplant treatments. It affects the quality of life of children and young people (CYP) and places a strain on services. Photobiomodulation is recommended for oral mucositis prevention in international guidance but is poorly implemented in UK ...
Claudia Heggie, Kara A. Gray‐Burrows, Peter F. Day, Bob Phillips, Carl A. Thompson   +4 more
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Characterizing the patient experience of physical restraint in psychiatric settings via a linguistic, sentiment, and metaphor analysis

Scientific Reports
Physical Restraint (PR) is a coercive procedure used in emergency psychiatric care to ensure safety in life-threatening situations. Because of its traumatic nature, studies emphasize the importance of considering the patient’s subjective experience.
Cristiano Nichini, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Biagio Scalingi, Eleonora Alecci, Luca Toschi, Simone Cavallotti, Anna Chiara Cigognini, Federico Durbano, Silvia Ferraris, Patrizia Santinon, Chiara Pompei, Federico Frau, Veronica Mangiaterra, Luca Bischetti, Marta Bosia, Gianluca Peschi, Pierluigi Politi, Valentina Bambini   +17 more
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'And' or 'or': General use coordination in ASL

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013
In American Sign Language (ASL), conjunction (‘and’) and disjunction (‘or’) are often conveyed by the same general use coordinator (transcribed as “COORD”).
Kathryn Davidson
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