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Scalar Diversity, Negative Strengthening, and Adjectival Semantics

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
Previous research has demonstrated great variability in the rates of scalar inferences across different triggers (Doran et al., 2009; van Tiel et al., 2016). In the current study, we show that variation is more systematic than previously thought.
Nicole Gotzner, Nicole Gotzner, Stephanie Solt, Anton Benz   +3 more
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Global positive polarity items and obligatory exhaustivity

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014
I argue for a distinction between two types of positive polarity items (PPIs) which has not been recognized so far. While for some PPIs, anti-licensing is a strictly local phenomenon, for other PPIs anti-licensing should be stated as a global condition.
Benjamin Spector
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When mental states matter

Filosofie Dnes
In this paper I discuss a common ambiguity in the specification of the content of implicatures either in terms of mental states “BELS(ψ)” or in terms of simple propositions “ψ”.
Matej Drobňák
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Intentions, Commitments, and the Derivation of Implicatures [PDF]

Organon F
In this paper, I focus on a common equivocality in how the content of conversational, especially scalar, implicatures is specified and I argue that there is a substantial difference between the belief specification BELS(¬ψ) (“The speaker believes that ¬ψ”
Matej Drobňák
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Individuality without Identity

Filosofie Dnes
In this paper I discuss a common ambiguity in the specification of the content of implicatures either in terms of mental states “BELS(ψ)” or in terms of simple propositions “ψ”.
Matěj Veselský
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'And' or 'or': General use coordination in ASL

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013
In American Sign Language (ASL), conjunction (‘and’) and disjunction (‘or’) are often conveyed by the same general use coordinator (transcribed as “COORD”).
Kathryn Davidson
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Embedded implicatures observed: a comment on Geurts and Pouscoulous (2009)

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2010
Conventionalist theories of scalar implicature differ from other accounts in that they predict strengthening of embedded scalar terms. Geurts and Pouscoulous (2009) argue that experimental support for this prediction is largely based on sentence ...
Charles Clifton, Chad Dube
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Testing theories of temporal inferences: Evidence from child language

Glossa, 2018
Sentences involving past tense verbs, such as “My dogs were on the carpet”, tend to give rise to the inference that the corresponding present tense version, “My dogs are on the carpet”, is false.
Alexandre Cremers, Frances Kane, Jacopo Romoli, Lyn Tieu, Lynda Kennedy, Raffaella Folli, Yasutada Sudo   +6 more
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How speaker cooperation and knowledge prime scalar implicatures

Language and Cognition
Pragmatic theories generally agree that the derivation of implicit meaning depends on the assumption that the speaker is cooperative and knowledgeable, as well as the contextual relevance of the implicature.
Anna Teresa Porrini, Luca Surian, Nausicaa Pouscoulous   +2 more
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Comprehension of Generalized Conversational Implicatures by Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
This study evaluates the comprehension of generalized conversational implicatures (GCI) in children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD), using a GCI test constructed based on the Levinson model, which distinguishes between three types of ...
Gemma Pastor-Cerezuela, Juan C. Tordera Yllescas, Francisco González-Sala, Maite Montagut-Asunción, María-Inmaculada Fernández-Andrés   +4 more
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