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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 A prevalent, but to date untested, assumption about lexicalized scalar implicatures such as those from some to not all, is that they fall into the class of GCIs and as such, constitute a homogeneous class of highly regularized and context-independent ...
Judith Degen
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GAME THEORY AND SCALAR IMPLICATURES [PDF]
Philosophical Perspectives, 2013 Much of philosophy of language and linguistics is concerned with showing what is special about language. One of Grice’s (1967/1989) contributions, against this tendency, was to treat speech as a form of rational activity, subject to the same sorts of norms and expectations that apply to all such activity.
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Relevance without existence: Experimenting on blind implicatures with empty domains
GlossaThe present paper presents experimental evidence confirming that contextually mismatching scalar implicatures can be generated even when quantifiers range over empty domains.
Maria Buyko +2 more
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A closer look at the sources of variability in scalar implicature derivation: a review
Frontiers 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, Nicole Gotzner
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Understanding Focus: Pitch, Placement and Coherence [PDF]
, 2020 This paper presents a novel account of focal stress and pitch contour in English dialogue. We argue that one should analyse and treat focus and pitch contour jointly, since (i) some pragmatic interpretations vary with contour (e.g., whether an utterance ...
Lascarides, Alex, Schlöder, Julian J.
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, 2019 AbstractThis chapter reviews recent experimental research into questions about how language and other functions of the mind are integrated when humans communicate. It posits a Gricean system that serves this purpose and discusses how recent developmental and ethological research provides evidence for such a system’s existence.
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Scalar Implicatures in Complex Sentences [PDF]
Linguistics and Philosophy, 2004 This article develops a Gricean account for the computation of scalar implicatures in cases where one scalar term is in the scope of another. It shows that a cross-product of two quantitative scales yields the appropriate scale for many such cases. One exception is cases involving disjunction. For these, I propose an analysis that makes use of a novel,
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How speaker cooperation and knowledge prime scalar implicatures
Language and CognitionPragmatic theories generally agree that the derivation of implicit meaning depends on the assumption that the speaker is cooperative and knowledgeable, as well as the contextual relevance of the implicature.
Anna Teresa Porrini +2 more
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Conversational Implicatures (and How to Spot Them) [PDF]
, 2013 In everyday conversations we often convey information that goes above and beyond what we strictly speaking say: exaggeration and irony are obvious examples. H.P.
Blome-Tillmann, Michael
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Scalar Implicature and Local Pragmatics [PDF]
Mind & Language, 2009 Abstract: The Gricean theory of conversational implicature has always been plagued by data suggesting that what would seem to be conversational inferences may occur within the scope of operators likebelieve, for example; which for bona fide implicatures should be an impossibility. Concentrating my attention on scalar implicatures, I argue that, for the
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