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Development of Quantitative and Temporal Scalar Implicatures in a Felicity Judgment Task
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Experimental investigations into children’s interpretation of scalar terms show that children have difficulties with scalar implicatures in tasks. In contrast with adults, they are for instance not able to derive the pragmatic interpretation that “some ...
Walter Schaeken +2 more
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Ignorance Implicatures and Non-doxastic Attitude Verbs [PDF]
, 2017 This paper is about conjunctions and disjunctions in the scope of non-doxastic atti- tude verbs. These constructions generate a certain type of ignorance implicature.
Blumberg, Kyle H.
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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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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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The Relevance of Polarity for the Online Interpretation of Scalar Terms [PDF]
, 2011 The interpretation of scalar terms (like, e.g., some vs. all; the numerals) has been at the center of much theoretical debate. Recently, this debate has focused on whether Scalar Implicature (SI) computation is grammatically or post grammatically driven (
Chierchia, Gennaro +3 more
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Detecting and ordering adjectival scalemates [PDF]
, 2015 This paper presents a pattern-based method that can be used to infer adjectival scales, such as , from a corpus. Specifically, the proposed method uses lexical patterns to automatically identify and order pairs of scalemates, followed by a filtering ...
van Miltenburg, Emiel
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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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