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Knowledgeability, Contextual Numerals and Scalar Implicature
, 2021 "Some of the books were interesting." is typically interpreted to mean that a non-zero number of books was interesting but NOT ALL of the books were interesting, because the speaker would have said "all" if they were all interesting.
Leon Bergen +4 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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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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Scalar Implicature, Hurford's Constraint, Contrastiveness and How They All Come Together
Frontiers 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
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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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Embedded implicatures observed: a comment on Geurts and Pouscoulous (2009)
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2010 Conventionalist theories of scalar implicature differ from other accounts in that they predict strengthening of embedded scalar terms. Geurts and Pouscoulous (2009) argue that experimental support for this prediction is largely based on sentence ...
Charles Clifton, Chad Dube
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Adjectival polarity and the processing of scalar inferences
Glossa, 2021 In a seminal study, Bott & Noveck (2004) found that the computation of the scalar inference of ‘some’ implying ‘not all’ was associated with increased sentence verification times, suggesting a processing cost. Recently, van Tiel and colleagues (2019b)
Bob van Tiel, Elizabeth Pankratz
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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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The Role of Alternatives in Language
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 In this review we provide a discussion of the concept of alternatives and its role in linguistic and psycholinguistic theorizing in the context of the contributions that have appeared in the Frontiers Research Topic The Role of Alternatives in Language ...
Sophie Repp, Katharina Spalek
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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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