The Cost of the Epistemic Step: Investigating Scalar Implicatures in Full and Partial Information Contexts [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 We present the first ERP experiments that test the online processing of the scalar implicature some ⇝ not all in contexts where the speaker competence assumption is violated.
Maria Spychalska +3 more
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Some Pieces Are Missing: Implicature Production in Children [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Until at least 4 years of age, children, unlike adults, interpret some as compatible with all. The inability to draw the pragmatic inference leading to interpret some as not all, could be taken to indicate a delay in pragmatic abilities, despite evidence
Sarah F. V. Eiteljoerge +4 more
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Scalar Diversity, Negative Strengthening, and Adjectival Semantics [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Previous research has demonstrated great variability in the rates of scalar inferences across different triggers (Doran et al., 2009; van Tiel et al., 2016). In the current study, we show that variation is more systematic than previously thought.
Nicole Gotzner +3 more
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Children's Acquisition of Homogeneity in Plural Definite Descriptions [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Plural definite descriptions give rise to homogeneity effects: the positive The trucks are blue and the negative The trucks aren't blue are both neither true nor false when some of the trucks are blue and some are not, that is, when the group of trucks ...
Lyn Tieu, Manuel Križ, Emmanuel Chemla
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Cross-Linguistic Variation in the Meaning of Quantifiers: Implications for Pragmatic Enrichment [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 One of the most studied scales in the literature on scalar implicatures is the quantifier scale. While the truth of some is entailed by the truth of all, some is felicitous only when all is false.
Penka Stateva +5 more
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Asymmetries Between Direct and Indirect Scalar Implicatures in Second Language Acquisition [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 A direct scalar implicature (DSI) arises when a sentence with a weaker term like sometimes implies the negation of the stronger alternative always (e.g., John sometimes (∼ not always) drinks coffee).
Shuo Feng, Jacee Cho
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Scalar Implicatures: The psychological reality of scales [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Scalar implicatures, the phenomena where a sentence like The pianist played some Mozart sonatas is interpreted as The pianist did not play all Mozart sonatas have been given two different analyses.
Alex de Carvalho +5 more
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Commentary: Scalar diversity, negative strengthening, and adjectival semantics [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyNadra Salman +3 more
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Conversational Implicature Of Women’s Language By Shin Tanokura In Drama Series Of Oshin
Izumi, 2021 This study aims to describe the conversational implicature of women’s language by Shin Tanokura in the drama series of Oshin. Research-based on a theory of Azuma (2009) for implicature as women’s language and Yule (2006) for conversational implicature ...
Eko Kurniawan, Shofi Mahmudah Budi Utami
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Scalar Implication as a linguistic universal: experimental data from Brazilian Portuguese
Revista Linguística, 2018 In this work we investigate the acquisition of scalar implicature in Brazilian Portuguese searching for the components that underlie mastery of such kind of inference.
Renato Caruso Vieira
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