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Scalar Implicatures with Alternative Semantics [PDF]
Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2006 No abstract.
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Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 412-426, Fall 2025.
Michael Da Silva
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Rapid Access to Scalar Implicatures in Adjacency Pair Contexts: Experimental Evidence in Spanish
Languages, 2019 A conversational implicature arises when there is a gap between the syntactically and semantically encoded meaning of a sentence and the pragmatic meaning that is inferred in an actual communicative situation. Several experimental studies have approached
Rodrigo Loredo +2 more
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Context in Generalized Conversational Implicatures: the case of some
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 There is now general agreement about the optionality of scalar implicatures: the pragmatic interpretation will be accessed depending on the context relative to which the utterance is interpreted.
Ludivine Emma Dupuy +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This study investigated the understanding of underinformative sentences like “Some elephants have trunks” by children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Walter Schaeken +2 more
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Task Variation in Scalar Implicature Computation.
, 2023 Experimental research on the processing and acquisition of Scalar Implicatures (SIs) relies on behavioral tasks that purport to measure the rate at which SIs are computed. Two paradigms, the Truth Value Judgment Task (TVJT) and the Picture Selection Task (PST) have dominated the experimental pragmatics literature; however, it is still unclear how the ...
Qiu, Zhuang +3 more
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Pragmatic inference of scalar implicature by LLMs
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)This study investigates how Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly BERT (Devlin et al., 2019) and GPT-2 (Radford et al., 2019), engage in pragmatic inference of scalar implicature, such as some. Two sets of experiments were conducted using cosine similarity and next sentence/token prediction as experimental methods.
Ye-eun Cho, Seong mook Kim
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Do Scalar Implicatures Prime? The Case of Exclusive 'or'.
, 2021 Understanding language requires comprehenders to understand not only what speakers say, but what speakers might imply. Scalar items (e.g. some, numerals) often invite comprehenders to compute scalar implicatures, pragmatically strengthening the semantic meaning of scalar items by negating their stronger alternatives.
Husband, Edward Matthew, Patson, Nikole
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SCALAR IMPLICATURE IN FACEBOOK
LINGUISTIK TERAPANThis research explores the phenomenon of scalar implicature in Facebook status updates, using Yule's systems theory to dissect the implied meanings conveyed through scalar expressions. The research reveals that scalar implicature significantly influences communication on Facebook, providing more insight into the construction of implicatures. Noteworthy
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