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Causal implicatures from correlational statements. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Correlation does not imply causation, but this does not necessarily stop people from drawing causal inferences from correlational statements. We show that people do in fact infer causality from statements of association, under minimal conditions.
Gershman SJ, Ullman TD.
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Salient alternatives facilitate implicatures. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Sentences can be enriched by considering what the speaker does not say but could have done, the alternative. We conducted two experiments to test whether the salience of the alternative contributes to how people derive implicatures.
Bott L, Frisson S.
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Manner implicatures in large language models. [PDF]
Sci RepIn human speakers’ daily conversations, what we do not say matters. We not only compute the literal semantics but also go beyond and draw inferences from what we could have said but chose not to.
Cong Y.
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Synthese, 2021 How should we account for the contextual variability of knowledge claims? Many philosophers favour an invariantist account on which such contextual variability is due entirely to pragmatic factors, leaving no interesting context-sensitivity in the ...
Kindermann D.
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Are Narrow Focus Exhaustivity Inferences Bayesian Inferences? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 In successful communication, the literal meaning of linguistic utterances is often enriched by pragmatic inferences. Part of the pragmatic reasoning underlying such inferences has been successfully modeled as Bayesian goal recognition in the Rational ...
Alexander Schreiber, Edgar Onea
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2009 Over the last decade, various proposals have been made for supplanting the classical Gricean theory of scalar implicature with conventionalist (i.e. lexicalist or syntax-based) treatments.
Bart Geurts, Nausicaa Pouscoulous
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Editorial: Scalar Implicatures. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2019 In 1975, Grice introduced the notion of implicature, arguing that it was more appropriate to account for a class of apparent lexical ambiguities through pragmatic processes than by multiplying lexical meanings (Modified Ockham's razor: Do not multiply meanings beyond necessity; Grice, 1975).
Reboul AC, Stateva P.
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This study evaluates the comprehension of generalized conversational implicatures (GCI) in children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD), using a GCI test constructed based on the Levinson model, which distinguishes between three types of ...
Gemma Pastor-Cerezuela +4 more
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"Is the Pope Catholic?" Applying Chain-of-Thought Reasoning to Understanding Conversational Implicatures [PDF]
arXiv.org, 2023 Conversational implicatures are pragmatic inferences that require listeners to deduce the intended meaning conveyed by a speaker from their explicit utterances.
Zae Myung Kim +2 more
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On commitment to untruthful implicatures
Intercultural Pragmatics, 2023 In the current debate on the lying-misleading distinction, many theorists distinguish between lying as insincere assertion and misleading through conveying an untruthful implicature.
J. Meibauer
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