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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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Social Context Modulates Tolerance for Pragmatic Violations in Binary but Not Graded Judgments [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 A common method for investigating pragmatic processing and its development in children is to have participants make binary judgments of underinformative (UI) statements such as Some elephants are mammals.
Les Sikos, Minjae Kim, Daniel J. Grodner
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Sources of cognitive cost in scalar implicature processing: A review
Frontiers in Communication, 2022 Research in Experimental Pragmatics has shown that deriving scalar implicatures involves effort and processing costs. This finding was robust and replicated across a wide variety of testing techniques, logical terms, populations, and languages.
Ahmed Khorsheed +2 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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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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Language and CognitionScalar words such as warm may give rise to inferences such as warm but not hot. Under standard accounts, such scalar implicatures are derived by negating stronger alternatives.
Radim Lacina +3 more
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Processing Scalar Implicature: A Constraint‐Based Approach [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 2015 Judith Degen, Michael K Tanenhaus
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