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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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Scalar implicatures: working memory and a comparison with `only'.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 A Scalar Implicature (SI) arises when the use of a weaker expression (e.g., some politicians are corrupt) implies the denial of an alternative sentence (e.g., not all politicians are corrupt).
Paul Pierre Marty, Emmanuel eChemla
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On Aristotle and Baldness: topic, reference, presupposition of existence, and negation [PDF]
, 2006 This paper is a contribution to the never settled debate on reference, negation and presupposition of existence in the linguistic/philosophical literature.
Brandtler, Johan
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Testing theories of temporal inferences: Evidence from child language
Glossa, 2018 Sentences involving past tense verbs, such as “My dogs were on the carpet”, tend to give rise to the inference that the corresponding present tense version, “My dogs are on the carpet”, is false.
Alexandre Cremers +6 more
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Inferring Acceptance and Rejection in Dialogue by Default Rules of Inference
, 1996 This paper discusses the processes by which conversants in a dialogue can infer whether their assertions and proposals have been accepted or rejected by their conversational partners.
Walker, Marilyn A.
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Scalar Implicatures: a Gricean vs. a Relevance Theory Approach [PDF]
, 2017 Griceans have always supported the idea that scalar implicaturesare Quantity-based generalized conversational implicatures (GCI). With the purpose of explaining this phenomenon, they derived their own principles inspired in Grice’s Quantity maxims and ...
Fernández Gaspar, Teresa
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Types of Implicature in Informal Conversations Used by the English Education Study Program Students [PDF]
, 2016 Implicature was refers to implied meaning in utterance that can be understood by indirectly expression. In informal conversation was occurred the hidden meaning of what actually said by the speakers.
Rahayu, E. S. (Endry) +1 more
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Exclamative clauses at the syntax-semantics interface [PDF]
, 2013 Exclamative clauses exhibit a structural diversity which raises the question of whether they form a clause type in the sense of Sadock & Zwicky (1985).
Zanuttini, Raffaella
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