Editorial: Scalar Implicatures [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 In 1975, Grice introduced the notion of implicature, arguing that it was more appropriate to account for a class of apparent lexical ambiguities through pragmatic processes than by multiplying lexical meanings (Modified Ockham's razor: Do not multiply meanings beyond necessity; Grice, 1975).
Anne Colette Reboul, Penka Stateva
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Scalar Implicatures: The psychological reality of scales [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Scalar implicatures, the phenomena where a sentence like The pianist played some Mozart sonatas is interpreted as The pianist did not play all Mozart sonatas have been given two different analyses.
Alex de Carvalho +5 more
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Cancelling the Maxim of Quantity: Another challenge for a Gricean theory of Scalar Implicatures [PDF]
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014 Grice (1975) pointed out that the ignorance inferences normally drawn when disjunctive sentences are uttered are cancelled when it is presupposed that speakers are not going to provide all of the relevant information that they have available (e.g., in ...
Danny Fox
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The Role of Working Memory in the Processing of Scalar Implicatures of Patients With Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 A number of studies have demonstrated pragmatic language difficulties in people with Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders. However, research about how people with schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders understand scalar ...
Walter Schaeken +4 more
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What second-language speakers can tell us about pragmatic processing. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Upon hearing the phrase Some cats meow, a listener might pragmatically infer that 'Some but not all cats meow'. This is known as a scalar implicature and it often arises when a speaker produces a weak linguistic expression instead of a stronger one ...
Ahmed Khorsheed +5 more
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Complex Inferential Processes Are Needed for Implicature Comprehension, but Not for Implicature Production [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Upon hearing “Some of Michelangelo’s sculptures are in Rome,” adults can easily generate a scalar implicature and infer that the intended meaning of the utterance corresponds to “Some but not all Michelangelo’s sculptures are in Rome.” Comprehension ...
Irene Mognon +3 more
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The Cost of the Epistemic Step: Investigating Scalar Implicatures in Full and Partial Information Contexts [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 We present the first ERP experiments that test the online processing of the scalar implicature some ⇝ not all in contexts where the speaker competence assumption is violated.
Maria Spychalska +3 more
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Scalar implicatures: working memory and a comparison with `only'. [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 A Scalar Implicature (SI) arises when the use of a weaker expression (e.g., some politicians are corrupt) implies the denial of an alternative sentence (e.g., not all politicians are corrupt).
Paul Pierre Marty, Emmanuel eChemla
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Asymmetries Between Direct and Indirect Scalar Implicatures in Second Language Acquisition [PDF]
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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Synthese, 2021 How should we account for the contextual variability of knowledge claims? Many philosophers favour an invariantist account on which such contextual variability is due entirely to pragmatic factors, leaving no interesting context-sensitivity in the ...
Kindermann D.
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