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Scalar Implicatures with Alternative Semantics [PDF]

Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2006
No abstract.
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Scalar implicatures versus presuppositions : the view from acquisition

, 2016
This paper reports an experimental investigation of presuppositions and scalar implicatures in language acquisition. Recent proposals (Chemla 2009; Romoli 2012, Romoli in J Semant 1–47, 2014) posit the same mechanisms for generating both types of ...
Bill, Cory, Schwarz, Florian, Romoli, Jacopo, Crain, Stephen   +3 more
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Maintaining Context or Reacting to It? Cognitive Control Strategy and Awareness of the “Question Under Discussion” in Scalar Implicature Derivation

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali
This experimental study examines whether the Question Under Discussion (QUD) modulates the comprehension of pragmatic implicatures in context. Using brief two-sentence communicative exchanges, participants are asked to judge the acceptability of a target
Glenn Starr
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Conjoined Predication and Scalar Implicature

CoRR
Magri (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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Computing Scalar Implicatures

Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2008
No abstract.
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Scalar and Ignorance Inferences Are Both Computed Immediately upon Encountering the Sentential Connective: The Online Processing of Sentences with Disjunction Using the Visual World Paradigm

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
Accounts based on the pragmatic maxim of quantity make different predictions about the computation of scalar versus ignorance inferences. These different predictions are evaluated in two eye-tracking experiments using a visual world paradigm to assess ...
Likan Zhan
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The Developmental Trajectory of Scalar Implicatures

, 2020
We often derive pragmatic inferences for a full comprehension of an utterance (e.g., metaphor, irony). Scalar implicatures, are a subtype of pragmatic inference that attribute an implicit meaning beyond the literal meaning of an utterance triggered by ...
Barner, David, Sun, Amy, Skordos, Dimitrios   +2 more
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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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Early Implicatures by Children and the Acquisition of Scalar Implicatures

, 2019
Inquiries into the acquisition of scalar implicatures (SIs) have focussed on the question why children calculate SIs less often than adults. To answer this question several hypotheses, such as the Processing Limitation Hypothesis, the Reference-Set ...
Röhrig, Stefanie
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Scope Assignments and Scalar Implicatures in Child English: The Role of Working Memory

, 2021
Acquisition delays have been found for scope assignments and scalar implicatures (cf. Musolino 1998; Lidz 2016; Chierchia et al. 2001; Noveck 2001; Katsos & Bishop 2011).
Wang, Shuyan
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