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Are explicatures cancellable? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Explicatures are not cancellable.
Capone, Alessandro
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The acquisition of scalar implicatures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Gottinger Schriften zur Englischen Philologie Band 3 Wer bei „scalar implicatures“ an eine exotische Zierfischart denkt und vor seinem geistigen Auge bunte Segelflosser majestatisch zwischen Steinen und Grunpflanzen dahinschweben sieht, der irrt sich sehr: Scalar implicatures bezeichnen keine Buntbarschart, sondern gehoren in den Bereich der Pragmatik.
openaire   +2 more sources

Scalar alternative activation for implicature processing: a lexical decision study with antonyms and negation

open access: yesLanguage and Cognition
Scalar words such as warm may give rise to inferences such as warm but not hot. Under standard accounts, such scalar implicatures are derived by negating stronger alternatives.
Radim Lacina   +3 more
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Inferring Acceptance and Rejection in Dialogue by Default Rules of Inference

open access: yes, 1996
This paper discusses the processes by which conversants in a dialogue can infer whether their assertions and proposals have been accepted or rejected by their conversational partners.
Walker, Marilyn A.
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A Cognitive Model for Conversation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
International audienceThis paper describes a symbolic model of rational action and decision making to support analysing dialogue. The model approximates principles of behaviour from game theory, and its proof theory makes Gricean principles of ...
Asher, Nicholas, Lascarides, Alex
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