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On the Quantitative Scalar or-Implicature

open access: yesSynthÈse, 2005
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Leon Horsten, Horsten Leon
exaly   +3 more sources

Editorial: Scalar Implicatures. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychol, 2019
In 1975, Grice introduced the notion of implicature, arguing that it was more appropriate to account for a class of apparent lexical ambiguities through pragmatic processes than by multiplying lexical meanings (Modified Ockham's razor: Do not multiply meanings beyond necessity; Grice, 1975).
Reboul AC, Stateva P.
europepmc   +6 more sources

Sources of cognitive cost in scalar implicature processing: A review

open access: yesFrontiers 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.
Bob Van Tiel, Ahmed Khorsheed
exaly   +3 more sources

Some Pieces Are Missing: Implicature Production in Children [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +2 more sources

The Cost of the Epistemic Step: Investigating Scalar Implicatures in Full and Partial Information Contexts [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Scalar Implicature, Hurford's Constraint, Contrastiveness and How They All Come Together

open access: yesFrontiers 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, Tomioka Satoshi
exaly   +3 more sources

Social Context Modulates Tolerance for Pragmatic Violations in Binary but Not Graded Judgments [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Children's Acquisition of Homogeneity in Plural Definite Descriptions [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Scalar Diversity, Negative Strengthening, and Adjectival Semantics [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +2 more sources

A closer look at the sources of variability in scalar implicature derivation: a review

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2023
For more than 20 years, studies in experimental pragmatics have provided invaluable insights into the cognitive processes involved in deriving scalar implicatures and achieving inferential comprehension.
Ahmed Khorsheed   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

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