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How speaker cooperation and knowledge prime scalar implicatures

Language and Cognition
Pragmatic 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, Luca Surian, Nausicaa Pouscoulous   +2 more
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Complexity vs. salience of alternatives in implicature: A cross-linguistic investigation

Glossa Psycholinguistics, 2022
Scalar implicature depends on the activation of alternatives. For instance, in English, finger implicates 'not thumb', suggesting that thumb is an activated alternative. Is this because it is more specific (Quantity) and equally short (Manner)?
Danielle Dionne, Elizabeth Coppock
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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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PERFORMING ANAPHORA IN MODERN GREEK: A NEO-GRICEAN PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS [PDF]

, 2013
The paper addresses the problem of interpreting anaphoric NPs in Modern Greek. It includes a proposal of a novel analysis based on the systematic interaction of the neo- Gricean pragmatic principles of communication, which provides a neat and elegant ...
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Asymmetries Between Direct and Indirect Scalar Implicatures in Second Language Acquisition

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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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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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
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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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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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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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