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Scalar implicatures or focus: an experimental approach

open access: yes, 2010
This dissertation is about one of the most robust and widespread types of pragmatic meaning in natural language: scalar implicatures (SIs). A scalar implicature is the inference that when a speaker uses a linguistic item that is on a scale with another ...
Overkoepelend onderzoeksprogramma UiL-OTS   +2 more
core  

Four-year-old children compute scalar implicatures in absence of epistemic reasoning

open access: yes, 2018
Children exhibit sophisticated mental state (epistemic) reasoning abilities from an early age, but it remains unclear what role these abilities play in the development of pragmatic inference in language acquisition.
David Barner
core  

Opposites in Reasoning Processes: Do We Use Them More Than We Think, but Less Than We Could? [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychol, 2021
Branchini E   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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