The neural computation of scalar implicature [PDF]
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2015 Language comprehension involves not only constructing the literal meaning of a sentence but also going beyond the literal meaning to infer what was meant but not said.
Jesse Snedeker +2 more
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Linking Hypothesis and Number of Response Options Modulate Inferred Scalar Implicature Rate [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 The past 15 years have seen increasing experimental investigations of core pragmatic questions in the ever more active and lively field of experimental pragmatics.
Masoud Jasbi +2 more
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What second-language speakers can tell us about pragmatic processing. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Upon hearing the phrase Some cats meow, a listener might pragmatically infer that 'Some but not all cats meow'. This is known as a scalar implicature and it often arises when a speaker produces a weak linguistic expression instead of a stronger one ...
Ahmed Khorsheed +5 more
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Complex Inferential Processes Are Needed for Implicature Comprehension, but Not for Implicature Production [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Upon hearing “Some of Michelangelo’s sculptures are in Rome,” adults can easily generate a scalar implicature and infer that the intended meaning of the utterance corresponds to “Some but not all Michelangelo’s sculptures are in Rome.” Comprehension ...
Irene Mognon +3 more
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Neurocognitive Trajectories of Scalar Implicature in Mandarin-Speaking Children: ERP Evidence for Attentional Allocation and Pragmatic Recalibration (4–6 Years) [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesDespite the centrality of scalar implicature (SI) in pragmatic development, the neurocognitive trajectory of SI processing in Mandarin-speaking children remains underexplored, with existing frameworks inadequately accounting for developmental constraints
Lulu Cheng +6 more
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Chinese comprehenders’ interpretation of underinformativeness in L1 and L2 accented speech narratives [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Second language (L2) speakers with foreign accents are well-known to face disadvantages in terms of language processing; however, recent research has demonstrated possible social benefits for foreign-accented L2 speakers.
Yanrui Li, Shuo Feng
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Context-Sensitivity and Individual Differences in the Derivation of Scalar Implicature [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 The derivation of scalar implicatures for the quantifier some has been widely studied to investigate the computation of pragmatically enriched meanings. For example, the sentence “I found some books” carries the semantic interpretation that at least one ...
Xiao Yang +3 more
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‘Some’ Effects of Age, Task, Task Content and Working Memory on Scalar Implicature Processing [PDF]
Psychologica Belgica, 2014 In three experiments, we investigated the effect of age, task, task content and working memory (WM) on scalar implicature processing. We found that three-year-olds still often interpret the scalar term ‘some’ logically (some being compatible with all ...
Leen Janssens +2 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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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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