The acquisition of scalar implicatures [PDF]
, 2010 Gottinger Schriften zur Englischen Philologie Band 3 Wer bei „scalar implicatures“ an eine exotische Zierfischart denkt und vor seinem geistigen Auge bunte Segelflosser majestatisch zwischen Steinen und Grunpflanzen dahinschweben sieht, der irrt sich sehr: Scalar implicatures bezeichnen keine Buntbarschart, sondern gehoren in den Bereich der Pragmatik.
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The Interaction of Contrastive Stress and Grammatical Context in Child English Speakers’ Interpretations of Existential Quantifiers [PDF]
, 2009 Scalar implicatures, such as the “some, but not all” implicature associated with the existential quantifier “some”, are systematically canceled in downward entailing (DE) environments, such as the antecedent clause of a conditional sentence (cf.
Thorward, Jennifer
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Objectionable thick concepts in denials [PDF]
, 2009 So-called "thick" moral concepts are distinctive in that they somehow "hold together" evaluation and description. But how? This paper argues against the standard view that the evaluations which thick concepts may be used to convey belong to sense or ...
Väyrynen, Pekka
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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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Editorial: Psychological and neurocognitive mechanisms of presupposition processing in speech and language processing. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Zhou X, Jiang X, Tan Y.
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Stephen C. Levinson, Presumptive meanings: the theory of generalized conversational implicature. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. Pp. xxiii+480. [PDF]
, 2004 Carston, R
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Knowledge mapping of the research on lexical inferencing: A bibliometric analysis. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Yang H, Fan L, Yin H.
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Early ERP Evidence for Children's and Adult's Sensitivity to Scalar Implicatures Triggered by Existential Quantifiers (Some). [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Panizza D, Onea E, Mani N.
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Conjoined Predication and Scalar Implicature
Magri (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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When some is not every: dissociating scalar implicature generation and mismatch. [PDF]
Hum Brain Mapp, 2014 Shetreet E, Chierchia G, Gaab N.
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