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On the Non-Unified Nature of Scalar Implicature: An Empirical Investigation
, 2009 Scalar implicaure is often offered as the exemplar of generalized conversational implicature. However, despite the wealth of literature devoted to both the phenomenon in general and to specific examples, little attention has been paid to the various ...
Yaron McNabb +4 more
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Conjoined Predication and Scalar Implicature
CoRRMagri (2016) investigates two puzzles arising from conjunction. Although Magri has proposed a solution to the second puzzle, the first remains unresolved. This first puzzle reveals a hidden interaction among quantification, collective/concurrent interpretation, and contextual updating dimensions that have yet to be explored.
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Which alternatives are relevant in scalar implicature processing? A priming study with antonyms and negation [PDF]
, 2023 Scalar words such as 'warm' often give rise to inferences such as 'warm but not hot'. Research has shown that weak scalars ('warm') prime stronger ones ('hot'), suggesting that the latter are used in implicature processing Ronai and Xiang (2023).
Ronai, Eszter +3 more
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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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Quantity implicature and access to scalar alternatives in language acquisition
, 2010 When faced with a sentence like "Some of the toys are on the table," adults, but not preschoolers, compute a scalar implicature, taking the sentence to imply that not all the toys are on the table. This paper explores the hypothesis that children fail to
Barner, David +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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Adjectival scales and three types of implicature
, 2018 In this work, we explore the relationship between three different inferences triggered by gradable adjectives. In particular, we look at scalar implicature and two competing inferences occurring under negation - scale reversal (indirect scalar ...
Benz, Anton +2 more
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The trouble with quantifiers: Exploring children’s deficits in scalar implicature
, 2018 Adults routinely use the context of utterances to infer a meaning beyond the literal semantics of their words (e.g., inferring from “She ate some of the cookies” that she ate some, but not all).
Michael C. Frank
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