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Scalar Implicatures with Alternative Semantics [PDF]
Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2006 No abstract.
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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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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, 2017 In this paper, we extend investigations of the possible effects of cross-linguistic influence at the pragmatics-syntax interface (Hulk & Müller 2000; Müller & Hulk 2001; Serratrice, Sorace & Paoli 2004), by presenting two experiments designed
Anne Lingwall +7 more
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Task Variation in Scalar Implicature Computation.
, 2023 Experimental research on the processing and acquisition of Scalar Implicatures (SIs) relies on behavioral tasks that purport to measure the rate at which SIs are computed. Two paradigms, the Truth Value Judgment Task (TVJT) and the Picture Selection Task (PST) have dominated the experimental pragmatics literature; however, it is still unclear how the ...
Qiu, Zhuang +3 more
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Pragmatic inference of scalar implicature by LLMs
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)This study investigates how Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly BERT (Devlin et al., 2019) and GPT-2 (Radford et al., 2019), engage in pragmatic inference of scalar implicature, such as some. Two sets of experiments were conducted using cosine similarity and next sentence/token prediction as experimental methods.
Ye-eun Cho, Seong mook Kim
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Is Semantics Really Psychologically Real? [PDF]
, 2009 The starting point for this paper is a critical discussion of claims of psychological reality articulated within Borg’s (forth.) minimal semantics and Carpintero’s (2007) character*-semantics.
Popa-Wyatt, Mihaela
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The Interaction of Contrastive Stress and Grammatical Context in Child English Speakers’ Interpretations of Existential Quantifiers [PDF]
, 2009 Scalar implicatures, such as the “some, but not all” implicature associated with the existential quantifier “some”, are systematically canceled in downward entailing (DE) environments, such as the antecedent clause of a conditional sentence (cf.
Thorward, Jennifer
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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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