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, 2018 This paper advances an approach to relevance grounded on patterns of material inference called argumentation schemes, which can account for the reconstruction and the evaluation of relevance relations. In order to account for relevance in different types
Macagno, Fabrizio
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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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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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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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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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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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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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