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Evoking context with contrastive stress: effects on pragmatic enrichment

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
Although it is widely acknowledged that context influences a variety of pragmatic phenomena, it is not clear how best to articulate this notion of context and thereby explain the nature of its influence.
Chris eCummins, Hannah eRohde
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Scalar alternative activation for implicature processing: a lexical decision study with antonyms and negation

Language and Cognition
Scalar words such as warm may give rise to inferences such as warm but not hot. Under standard accounts, such scalar implicatures are derived by negating stronger alternatives.
Radim Lacina, Stavroula Alexandropoulou, Eszter Ronai, Nicole Gotzner   +3 more
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Embedded implicatures?!?

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2009
Over the last decade, various proposals have been made for supplanting the classical Gricean theory of scalar implicature with conventionalist (i.e. lexicalist or syntax-based) treatments.
Bart Geurts, Nausicaa Pouscoulous
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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.
Altmann G., Gazdar G., Ginzburg J., Grice H. P., Grodner D. J., Grodzinsky Y., Hallett P. E., Heather J. Ferguson, Heim I., Heim I., Horn L., Horn L., Levinson S., Napoleon Katsos, Richard Breheny, Roberts C., Schneider W., Spector B., Sperber D.   +18 more
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Implicit Theory of Mind (ToM) plays a key role in pragmatic reasoning of scalar implicatures

Acta Psychologica
Objective: This study assessed the effect of explicit and implicit Theory of Mind (ToM) on pragmatic reasoning, specifically scalar implicature interpretation, in adult participants.
Renato Zambrano-Cruz, Carlos Esteban Rincón-Cruz, Mercedes Suárez de la Torre   +2 more
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Processing Presuppositions and Implicatures: Similarities and Differences

Frontiers in Communication, 2018
Presuppositions and scalar implicatures are traditionally considered to be distinct phenomena, but recent accounts analyze (at least some of) the former as the latter.
Cory Bill, Cory Bill, Jacopo Romoli, Florian Schwarz   +3 more
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What are particularistic pejoratives?

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
Particularistic pejoratives (PPs) mock individuals based on their personal attributes yet lack a precise definition. This paper seeks to refine our understanding of PPs by examining their derogatory profiles across three dimensions: descriptiveness, intensity, and slurring potential.
Víctor Carranza‐Pinedo
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Some , And Possibly All, Scalar Inferences Are Not Delayed: Evidence For Immediate Pragmatic Enrichment [PDF]

, 2010
Scalar inferences are commonly generated when a speaker uses a weaker expression rather than a stronger alternative, e.g., John ate some of the apples implies that he did not eat them all. This article describes a visual-world study investigating how and
Agresti, Allopenna, Bott, Breheny, Calvert, Carston, Chambers, Chierchia, Chierchia, Cooper, Dahan, Dahan, Daniel J. Grodner, Gallistel, Geurts, Grice, Grodner, Hirschberg, Horn, Horn, Huang, Jaeger, Kanan, Kass, Kathleen M. Carbary, Levinson, Magnuson, Matin, Michael K. Tanenhaus, Murphy, Natalie M. Klein, Noveck, Noveck, Pickering, Pollack, Postal, Rips, Russell, Sadock, Salverda, Salverda, Sauerland, Soames, Sperber, Swinney, Swinney, Tanenhaus, Tanenhaus   +47 more
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Linearism, Universalism and Scope Ambiguities

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 59-71, March 2026.
ABSTRACT In this paper, I distinguish two possible families of semantics of the open future: Linearism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated with respect to a unique possible future history, and Universalism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated universally quantifying on the histories passing through the moment of
Aldo Frigerio
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Scalar implicatures of embedded disjunction [PDF]

Natural Language Semantics, 2015
Sentences with disjunction in the scope of a universal quantifier, Every A is P or Q, tend to give rise to distributive inferences that each of the disjuncts holds of at least one individual in the domain of the quantifier, Some A is P & Some A is Q. These inferences are standardly derived as an entailment of the meaning of the sentence together with ...
Crnič, Luka, Chemla, Emmanuel, Fox, Daniel   +2 more
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