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The acquisition of scalar implicatures [PDF]
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.
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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
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]
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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Knowledge mapping of the research on lexical inferencing: A bibliometric analysis. [PDF]
Yang H, Fan L, Yin H.
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The pragmatics of exhaustivity in embedded questions: an experimental comparison of know and predict in German and English. [PDF]
Fricke L +3 more
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Stephen C. Levinson, Presumptive meanings: the theory of generalized conversational implicature. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. Pp. xxiii+480. [PDF]
Carston, R
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Salient alternatives facilitate implicatures. [PDF]
Bott L, Frisson S.
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Some inferences still take time: Prosody, predictability, and the speed of scalar implicatures. [PDF]
Huang YT, Snedeker J.
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