Social Context Modulates Tolerance for Pragmatic Violations in Binary but Not Graded Judgments [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 A common method for investigating pragmatic processing and its development in children is to have participants make binary judgments of underinformative (UI) statements such as Some elephants are mammals.
Les Sikos, Minjae Kim, Daniel J. Grodner
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What second-language speakers can tell us about pragmatic processing. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Upon hearing the phrase Some cats meow, a listener might pragmatically infer that 'Some but not all cats meow'. This is known as a scalar implicature and it often arises when a speaker produces a weak linguistic expression instead of a stronger one ...
Ahmed Khorsheed +5 more
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Linking Hypothesis and Number of Response Options Modulate Inferred Scalar Implicature Rate [PDF]
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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Complex Inferential Processes Are Needed for Implicature Comprehension, but Not for Implicature Production [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 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 ...
Irene Mognon +3 more
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Chinese comprehenders’ interpretation of underinformativeness in L1 and L2 accented speech narratives [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Second language (L2) speakers with foreign accents are well-known to face disadvantages in terms of language processing; however, recent research has demonstrated possible social benefits for foreign-accented L2 speakers.
Yanrui Li, Shuo Feng
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Context-Sensitivity and Individual Differences in the Derivation of Scalar Implicature [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 The derivation of scalar implicatures for the quantifier some has been widely studied to investigate the computation of pragmatically enriched meanings. For example, the sentence “I found some books” carries the semantic interpretation that at least one ...
Xiao Yang +3 more
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Scalar Implicature is Sensitive to Contextual Alternatives. [PDF]
Cogn Sci, 2023 AbstractThe quantifier “some” often elicits a scalar implicature during comprehension: “Some of today's letters have checks inside” is often interpreted to mean that not all of today's letters have checks inside. In previous work, Goodman and Stuhlmüller (G&S) proposed a model that predicts that this implicature should depend on the speaker's ...
Zhang Z +4 more
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The Neural Computation of Scalar Implicature. [PDF]
Lang Cogn Neurosci, 2015 Language comprehension involves not only constructing the literal meaning of a sentence but also going beyond the literal meaning to infer what was meant but not said. One widely-studied test case is scalar implicature: The inference that, e.g., Sally ate some of the cookies implies she did not eat all of them.
Hartshorne JK +3 more
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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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‘Some’ Effects of Age, Task, Task Content and Working Memory on Scalar Implicature Processing [PDF]
Psychologica Belgica, 2014 In three experiments, we investigated the effect of age, task, task content and working memory (WM) on scalar implicature processing. We found that three-year-olds still often interpret the scalar term ‘some’ logically (some being compatible with all ...
Leen Janssens +2 more
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