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Determining the alternatives for scalar implicature

open access: yes, 2016
Successful communication regularly requires listeners to makepragmatic inferences — enrichments beyond the literal mean-ing of a speaker’s utterance. For example, when interpretinga sentence such as “Alice ate some of the cookies,” listenersroutinely infer that Alice did not eat all of them.
Peloquin, Benjamin, Frank, Michael C.
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