On the Quantitative Scalar or-Implicature
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Leon Horsten, Horsten Leon
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Editorial: Scalar Implicatures. [PDF]
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.
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Sources of cognitive cost in scalar implicature processing: A review
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
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Some Pieces Are Missing: Implicature Production in Children [PDF]
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]
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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Scalar Implicature, Hurford's Constraint, Contrastiveness and How They All Come Together
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
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Social Context Modulates Tolerance for Pragmatic Violations in Binary but Not Graded Judgments [PDF]
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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Children's Acquisition of Homogeneity in Plural Definite Descriptions [PDF]
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 Diversity, Negative Strengthening, and Adjectival Semantics [PDF]
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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A closer look at the sources of variability in scalar implicature derivation: a review
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
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