Scalar Implicatures: The psychological reality of scales [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Scalar implicatures, the phenomena where a sentence like The pianist played some Mozart sonatas is interpreted as The pianist did not play all Mozart sonatas have been given two different analyses.
Alex de Carvalho +5 more
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Asymmetries Between Direct and Indirect Scalar Implicatures in Second Language Acquisition [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 A direct scalar implicature (DSI) arises when a sentence with a weaker term like sometimes implies the negation of the stronger alternative always (e.g., John sometimes (∼ not always) drinks coffee).
Shuo Feng, Jacee Cho
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Distinct neural correlates for pragmatic and semantic meaning processing: An event-related potential investigation of scalar implicature processing using picture-sentence verification [PDF]
Brain Research, 2013 Xiaolin Zhou +2 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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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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Cross-Linguistic Variation in the Meaning of Quantifiers: Implications for Pragmatic Enrichment
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 One of the most studied scales in the literature on scalar implicatures is the quantifier scale. While the truth of some is entailed by the truth of all, some is felicitous only when all is false.
Penka Stateva +5 more
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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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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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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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