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Number-neutral bare plurals and the multiplicity implicature [PDF]
, 2009 Bare plurals (dogs) behave in ways that quantified plurals (some dogs) do not. For instance, while the sentence John owns dogs implies that John owns more than one dog, its negation John does not own dogs does not mean "John does not own more than one ...
Zweig, E.
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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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, 2019 How should we account for the contextual variability of knowledge claims? Many philosophers favour an invariantist account on which such contextual variability is due entirely to pragmatic factors, leaving no interesting context-sensitivity in the ...
Kindermann, Dirk
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Experimental Evidence for Embedded Scalar Implicatures [PDF]
Journal of Semantics, 2011 Scalar implicatures are traditionally viewed as pragmatic inferences which result from a reasoning about speakers’ communicative intentions (Grice 1989). This view has been challenged in recent years by theories which propose that scalar implicatures are a grammatical phenomenon.
Chemla, E., Spector, B.
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Scalar Implicature, Hurford's Constraint, Contrastiveness and How They All Come Together
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 Disjunction with two scalar items, such as some or all of the books, has been regarded as evidence for the grammatical theory of scalar implicatures (e.g., Chierchia et al., 2012).
Satoshi Tomioka
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Upper-Bounded Scalars and Argumentation-in-Language Theory
Anglophonia, 2019 Scalar implicatures, such as the ‘not all’-implicature attached to “some”, have been at the center of debates on the semantics-pragmatics interface ever since Horn (1972).
Laura Devlesschouwer
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Collective-Distributive Interpretations in Bilingual Spanish-English-Speaking Children
Isogloss, 2022 Developmental semantic research in child Italian, Spanish, and English has shown that children’s knowledge of distributive interpretations does not appear adult-like until 10 or 11 years of age.
Anne Lingwall Odio, John Grinstead
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Adjectival polarity and the processing of scalar inferences
Glossa, 2021 In a seminal study, Bott & Noveck (2004) found that the computation of the scalar inference of ‘some’ implying ‘not all’ was associated with increased sentence verification times, suggesting a processing cost. Recently, van Tiel and colleagues (2019b)
Bob van Tiel, Elizabeth Pankratz
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Embedded implicatures observed: a comment on Geurts and Pouscoulous (2009)
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2010 Conventionalist theories of scalar implicature differ from other accounts in that they predict strengthening of embedded scalar terms. Geurts and Pouscoulous (2009) argue that experimental support for this prediction is largely based on sentence ...
Charles Clifton, Chad Dube
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The Role of Alternatives in Language
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 In this review we provide a discussion of the concept of alternatives and its role in linguistic and psycholinguistic theorizing in the context of the contributions that have appeared in the Frontiers Research Topic The Role of Alternatives in Language ...
Sophie Repp, Katharina Spalek
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