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Children younger than 5½ years of age do not draw inferences based on the quantity of information expressed (e.g. the inference that ‘some of the animals are sleeping’ implies ‘not all the animals are sleeping’) at the rates that adults do. Explanations of this difficulty include limited processing resources, shallow lexical entries and lack of adult ...
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Children younger than 5½ years of age do not draw inferences based on the quantity of information expressed (e.g. the inference that ‘some of the animals are sleeping’ implies ‘not all the animals are sleeping’) at the rates that adults do. Explanations of this difficulty include limited processing resources, shallow lexical entries and lack of adult ...
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Discourse Structuring Questions and Scalar Implicatures
2013In this paper we discuss the interdependence of scalar implicatures and discourse structuring questions. We show that even prototypical cases of scalar implicatures can depend on an explicitly or implicitly given Question under Discussion. Particularly, we argue against the idea that scalar implicatures are automatically generated by the logical form ...
Anton Benz, Fabienne Salfner
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Evidential scalar implicatures
Linguistics and Philosophy, 2012This paper develops an analysis of a scalar implicature that is induced by the use of reportative evidentials such as the Cuzco Quechua enclitic = si and the German modal sollen. Reportatives, in addition to specifying the speaker's source of information for a statement as a report by someone else, also usually convey that the speaker does not have ...
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The balance of scalar implicature
2015This dissertation aims to provide new insight into the properties that underlie scalar implicature (SI) processing. Previous experiments have investigated the time course of SI processing and whether or not it is a costly, resource-demanding process, but not what the resources have been specifically used to do, and when.
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Intermediate Scalar Implicatures
2014In this chapter, I am concerned with the explanation of scalar implicatures; specifically, with the question whether scalar implicatures should be explained in the pragmatics or in the semantics of a sentence.* In this discussion, I use the terms implicative and scalar implicative simply as labels for a certain range of facts.
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Scalar Implicatures, Communication, and Language Evolution
2010This text deals with Scalar Implicatures (SIs). According to the main tenets of Grice, derivation of SIs is a pragmatic phenomenon that occurs at the root of the sentence, in a global fashion. This is the so-called “globalism”. Theorists like Chierchia argue that in order to get specific readings otherwise unavailable SIs can (and in fact must) occur ...
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The Roots of (Scalar) Implicature
2014A year after unveiling the notion of ‘implicature’ in his William James lectures at Harvard, Paul Grice published one of these lectures, a study of the relation of word meaning to utterer’s meaning within his overall framework for speaker meaning: The wider programme...arises out of a distinction I wish to make within the lolal signification of a ...
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Scalar implicatures in a signed language
Sign Language & Linguistics, 2014This paper tests the calculation of scalar implicatures in American Sign Language (ASL) in one of the first experimental pragmatic studies in the manual/visual modality. Both native signers of ASL and native speakers of English participated in an automated Felicity Judgment Task to compare implicatures based on two traditional scales as well as “ad hoc”
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Scalar implicatures and iterated admissibility
Linguistics and Philosophy, 2013Paul Grice has given an account of conversational implicatures that hinges on the hypothesis that communication is a cooperative activity performed by rational agents which pursue a common goal. The attempt to derive Grice’s principles from game theory is a natural step, since its aim is to predict the behaviour of rational agents in situations where ...
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Some Remarks on the Scalar Implicatures Debate
2014The purpose of this book is to provide a discussion forum for participants in the recent scalar implicatures debate. The bulk of contributions are formal, except for two. Larry Horn’s chapter, which opens the book, provides an interesting and remarkably documented investigation on the phenomenon’s historic development, evoking proto-pragmatic accounts ...
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