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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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Implicit Theory of Mind (ToM) plays a key role in pragmatic reasoning of scalar implicatures
Acta PsychologicaObjective: 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 +2 more
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Comprehension of Scalar Implicature in 3-7 Mono-Lingual Persian-Speaking Children [PDF]
̒Ilm-i ZabānSimile 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 +2 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates the role of semantic features of noun and adjective bases in determining the grammatical behaviour of Ancient Greek denominal and deadjectival verbs in *‐ye/o‐. The paper adopts a lexicalist framework (Rappaport Hovav & Levin 1998) and examines how the event schema, actionality, telicity and voice of derived verbs are ...
Carolina Marescotti
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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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Respectful Debiasing in Democratic Deliberation
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Democratic deliberation about health policy requires, as one of its inputs, ethical judgments from members of the public. These judgments may, however, be biased and unreliable—they may be systematically distorted by framing and emotion effects, by the effects of self‐interest, and by a whole host of other cognitive and affective biases ...
Shang Long Yeo
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Patients with psychosis struggle with scalar implicatures [PDF]
Schizophrenia Research, 2018 Pragmatic language difficulties in people with psychosis have been demonstrated repeatedly but one of the most studied types of pragmatic language, i.e. scalar implicatures (SIs), has not yet been examined in this population. SIs are a special kind of pragmatic inferences, based on linguistic expressions like some, or, must.
Martien, Wampers +4 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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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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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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