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Against Context-blind Scalar Implicatures

open access: yesJournal of Language Sciences, 2014
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The plural is semantically unmarked [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Anderssen, Jan   +2 more
core  

From state to change of state by type-shift. [PDF]

open access: yesNat Lang Semant
Smith RW   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Prosody affects scalar implicature generation

open access: yes, 2014
de Marneffe, Marie-Catherine   +2 more
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More Than and Scalar Implicatures

open access: yesMore Than and Scalar Implicatures
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Scalar implicature and contrastive explanation

Synthese, 2007
I argue for a subsumption of any version of Grice’s first quantity maxim posited to underlie scalar implicature, by developing the idea of implicature recovery as a kind of explanatory inference, as e.g. in science. I take the applicable model to be contrastive explanation, while following van Fraassen’s analysis of explanation as an answer to a why ...
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Scalar implicature

Pragmatics and Society
Abstract Scalar implicature is a very interesting topic in linguistic pragmatics. This study is intended to argue that, based on the Cognitive Grammar paradigm, scalar implicature is contextually activated by schematic networks.
Yanfei Zhang, Nina Liang, Shaojie Zhang
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