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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Processing Scalar Implicature: A Constraint-Based Approach [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 2015 Judith Degen, Michael K. Tanenhaus
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Scalar Implicature is Sensitive to Contextual Alternatives. [PDF]
Cogn Sci, 2023 The quantifier "some" often elicits a scalar implicature during comprehension: "Some of today's letters have checks inside" is often interpreted to mean that not all of today's letters have checks inside.
Zhang Z +4 more
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Commentary: Scalar diversity, negative strengthening, and adjectival semantics [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyNadra Salman +3 more
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Conversational Implicature Of Women’s Language By Shin Tanokura In Drama Series Of Oshin
Izumi, 2021 This study aims to describe the conversational implicature of women’s language by Shin Tanokura in the drama series of Oshin. Research-based on a theory of Azuma (2009) for implicature as women’s language and Yule (2006) for conversational implicature ...
Eko Kurniawan, Shofi Mahmudah Budi Utami
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Investigating the timecourse of accessing conversational implicatures during incremental sentence interpretation [PDF]
, 2013 Many contextual inferences in utterance interpretation are explained as following from the nature of conversation and the assumption that participants are rational.
Breheny, Richard +2 more
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Probing incremental commitment to scalar implicature
, 2023 We plan to conduct a reading study in the Maze on the nature of incremental commitment to scalar implicature in sentence n, by probing for reanalysis effects during the reading of a sentence n+1 which contradicts the implicature, in a loose replication ...
John Duff
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Analisis Implikatur dalam Meme Populer pada Akun Instagram Remaja Arab
Diwan: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra Arab, 2019 This study aims to describe the implicature types used by the memes creator on the Instagram account of I.Q Shabab to deliver messages to his followers (readers). This research was a qualitative descriptive study.
Yasmin Azizi +2 more
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Associative meaning and scalar implicature: a linguistic-semiotic account [PDF]
, 2014 This paper shows that three kinds of phenomena typically subject to disparate analyses are all forms of 'associative meaning': (i) extralinguistic-based, (ii) linguistic-based, and (iii) scalar implicature-based.
Dickins, J
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