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Linking Hypothesis and Number of Response Options Modulate Inferred Scalar Implicature Rate
Frontiers 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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Children's acquiescence to polysemous implicature questions about coaching: The role of parental support. [PDF]
J Appl Dev Psychol, 2022 Children may be asked questions with subtle and implied meanings. The present study examined whether, and under what conditions, 5- to 10-year-old children affirmed polysemous implicature questions that implied coaching, when in fact no coaching occurred.
Wylie BE +4 more
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Elsya, 2021 Public service announcements (PSAs) are the official way for governments to inform, educate and change public behaviour in order to reduce public health issues, such as Covid-19.
Susan Marbun +2 more
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Assertion, Implicature, and Iterated Knowledge
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2022 The present paper argues that there is a knowledge norm for conversational implicature: one may conversationally implicate p only if one knows p. Linguistic data about the cancellation behavior of implicatures and the ways they are challenged and ...
Eliran Haziza
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Child-Like Adults: Dual-Task Effects on Collective vs. Distributive Sentence Interpretations [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 In this work, we consider a recent proposal that claims that the preferred interpretation of sentences containing definite plural expressions, such as “The boys are building a snowman,” is not determined by semantic composition but is pragmatically ...
Anna M. B. de Koster +2 more
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On the Quantitative Scalar or-Implicature
SynthÈse, 2005 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Leon Horsten
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Journal of Languages and Language Teaching, 2019 This study was aimed at finding analysis of conversational implicature in a drama “the bear” by Anton Chekhov and its application in English language teaching". This research was conducted in a descriptive qualitative method.
Hendra Suryadi, Muslim Muslim
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Complex Inferential Processes Are Needed for Implicature Comprehension, but Not for Implicature Production. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2020 Upon hearing “Some of Michelangelo’s sculptures are in Rome,” adults can easily generate a scalar implicature and infer that the intended meaning of the utterance corresponds to “Some but not all Michelangelo’s sculptures are in Rome.” Comprehension experiments show that preschoolers struggle with this kind of inference until at least 5 years of age ...
Mognon I +3 more
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Some Pieces Are Missing: Implicature Production in Children
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Until at least 4 years of age, children, unlike adults, interpret some as compatible with all. The inability to draw the pragmatic inference leading to interpret some as not all, could be taken to indicate a delay in pragmatic abilities, despite evidence
Sarah F. V. Eiteljoerge +4 more
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Scalar Implicature is Sensitive to Contextual Alternatives [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 2023 Zhang Z +4 more
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