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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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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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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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Comprehension of Scalar Implicature in 3-7 Mono-Lingual Persian-Speaking Children [PDF]

̒Ilm-i Zabān
Simile understanding requires two distinct pragmatic skills: understanding the intended similarity and deriving a scalar implicature (e.g., “Nina is like a rabbit” normally implies that “Nina is not a rabbit”).
Arezoo Khani, Ali Jamali, Tayyebeh Khoshbakht   +2 more
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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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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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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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How generics obscure the logic of conditionals

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
This paper discusses counter‐examples to modus ponens and modus tollens involving modals and quantificational adverbs, and presents new counter‐examples with generic conditionals. We argue that the counter‐examples are spurious, and are explained by the domain‐restricting effects of if‐clauses.
Daniel Lassiter, Maxime Bourlier, Baptiste Jacquet, Jean Baratgin   +3 more
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