Child-Like Adults: Dual-Task Effects on Collective vs. Distributive Sentence Interpretations. [PDF]
de Koster AMB, Hendriks P, Spenader JK.
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Are Narrow Focus Exhaustivity Inferences Bayesian Inferences? [PDF]
Schreiber A, Onea E.
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Scalar implicatures or focus: an experimental approach
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 ...
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Four-year-old children compute scalar implicatures in absence of epistemic reasoning
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
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On the role of entailment patterns and scalar implicatures in the processing of numerals. [PDF]
Panizza D, Chierchia G, Clifton C.
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Does It Matter What Is Said and Who Said It? The Interpretation of Trump's and Harris' Statements Among Republican and Democrat Voters. [PDF]
Gotzner N.
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Processing Non-at-Issue Meanings of Conditional Connectives: The wenn/falls Contrast in German. [PDF]
Liu M.
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Opposites in Reasoning Processes: Do We Use Them More Than We Think, but Less Than We Could? [PDF]
Branchini E +4 more
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Three distinct components of pragmatic language use: Social conventions, intonation, and world knowledge-based causal reasoning. [PDF]
Floyd S +5 more
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