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A subclinical study of the cognitive resources underlying scalar implicature: A focus on scalar adjectives [PDF]
, 2014 Recent investigations of different types of scalar implicature have reported variable strength in comprehenders’ commitment to their implicated meanings, perhaps related to the different properties each scale type has.
Husband, Matthew
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Differentiating scalar implicature from exclusion inferences in language acquisition
, 2018 When acquiring language, children must not only learn the meanings of words, but also how to interpret them in context. For example, children must learn both the logical semantics of the scalar quantifier some and its pragmatically enriched meaning ...
Jess Sullivan +3 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 +3 more
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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 +3 more
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Mind &Language, EarlyView.Humans seek to predict, explain, and control their environments. Generalizations—like those expressed by “children like candy” and “cigarettes cause cancer”—provide one resource to facilitate these tasks. We develop a proposal tying the acceptability judgments of generics to the psychological functions of generalizations.
Katherine Ritchie, Ny Vasil
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT By issuing requests of one another, we wield what is, on reflection, a remarkable power: to create reasons at will. But how can requesters give us reasons to do what they want, even when they stand in no relation of authority over us? And what would be lost if we saw requests as communicating the existence of pre‐existing reasons, rather than ...
Milan Mossé
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2011 In Magri 2009a, I argue that a sentence such as '#Some Italians come from a warm country' sounds odd because it triggers the scalar implicature that not all Italians come from a warm country, which mismatches with the piece of common knowledge that all ...
Giorgio Magri
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On Derived Change of State Verbs in Southern Aymara
Languages, 2021 There are two main approaches to change of state verbs. One adopts an approach in terms of a total change (becomeP, for base predicate P), i.e., a change from not being in the extension of the base predicate to being in it.
Gabriel Martínez Vera
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Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 5, September 2026.ABSTRACT Choosing whom to learn from is critical for human learners. A well‐established strategy to do so is to track informants' past accuracy. Yet this requires both a track record and independent knowledge of the truth—neither of which is available when encountering a new informant in an unfamiliar domain.
Cyann Bernard +2 more
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Scalar implicature: theory, processing and acquisition [PDF]
, 2012 Katsos N, Cummins C. Scalar implicature: theory, processing and acquisition. Nouveaux Cahiers de Linguistique Française.
Katsos, Napoleon +2 more
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