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Child Development, Volume 96, Issue 5, Page 1807-1824, September/October 2025.ABSTRACT To see whether communicative‐based multimodal skills (compared to non‐communicative motor skills) predicted complex language skills, this study examined the predictive power of multimodal and motor skills on narrative and expressive pragmatic abilities across two groups. Participants were children with typical development (N = 88, Mage = 5.34,
Júlia Florit‐Pons +4 more
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Against Grammatical Computation of Scalar Implicatures [PDF]
Journal of Semantics, 2006 Recently, several authors have argued that Gricean theories of scalar implicature computation are inadequate, and, as an alternative, one author has proposed a grammatical system for computing scalar implicatures. The present paper provides arguments, counter to the'claims of these authors, that Gricean reasoning can account for the implicatures of ...
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Language Learning, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 898-929, September 2025.Abstract A handful of second language (L2) studies have explored bidirectional pragmatic transfer: forward pragmatic transfer—the influence of learners' first language (L1) on their L2—and reverse pragmatic transfer—the impact of learners' L2 on their L1.
Ying Zhang (she/her)
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Truth‐Value Judgment Tasks in Second Language Research
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 5, September/October 2025.ABSTRACT This paper provides a focused review of truth‐value judgment tasks (TVJTs) as a method for eliciting interpretations in adult second language learners. We present the historical perspectives, the rationale for their use, the nature of the knowledge they target, and critical design considerations. Additionally, we discuss their effectiveness in
Shaohua Fang, Elaine J. Francis
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EFL Learners' Pragmatic Tolerance of Quantity Maxim Violation
مجلة النور للدراسات الانسانيةThe current study embarks on investigating Iraqi EFL learners' pragmatic tolerance of quantity maxim violations. Additionally, it seeks to shed light on Iraqi EFL learners' pragmatic abilities in deriving pragmatic inferences from utterances that contain
Maha Khaled Yasseen Researcher: Maha Khaled Yasseen +1 more
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Raising and resolving issues with scalar modifiers
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013 We argue that the superlative modifiers at least and at most quantify over a scale of answers to the current question under discussion (and in this sense, resolve issues), and that they draw attention to the individual possibilities along the scale (and ...
Elizabeth Coppock, Thomas Brochhagen
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Anticausatives are weak scalar expressions, not reflexive expressions
Glossa, 2016 We discuss conceptual and empirical arguments from Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages against an analysis treating anticausative verbs as derived from their lexical causative counterparts under reflexivization. Instead, we defend the standard account
Florian Schäfer, Margot Vivanco
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Glossa, 2018 This paper reports on five experiments investigating intervention effects in negative polarity item (NPI) licensing. Such intervention effects involve the unexpected ungrammaticality of sentences that contain an intervener, such as a universal quantifier,
Emmanuel Chemla, Lyn Tieu, Milica Denić
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Development of Quantitative and Temporal Scalar Implicatures in a Felicity Judgment Task
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Experimental investigations into children’s interpretation of scalar terms show that children have difficulties with scalar implicatures in tasks. In contrast with adults, they are for instance not able to derive the pragmatic interpretation that “some ...
Walter Schaeken +2 more
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Conjoined Predication and Scalar Implicature
CoRRMagri (2016) investigates two puzzles arising from conjunction. Although Magri has proposed a solution to the second puzzle, the first remains unresolved. This first puzzle reveals a hidden interaction among quantification, collective/concurrent interpretation, and contextual updating dimensions that have yet to be explored.
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