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Scalar Implicatures, Communication, and Language Evolution

2010
This text deals with Scalar Implicatures (SIs). According to the main tenets of Grice, derivation of SIs is a pragmatic phenomenon that occurs at the root of the sentence, in a global fashion. This is the so-called “globalism”. Theorists like Chierchia argue that in order to get specific readings otherwise unavailable SIs can (and in fact must) occur ...
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The Roots of (Scalar) Implicature

2014
A year after unveiling the notion of ‘implicature’ in his William James lectures at Harvard, Paul Grice published one of these lectures, a study of the relation of word meaning to utterer’s meaning within his overall framework for speaker meaning: The wider programme...arises out of a distinction I wish to make within the lolal signification of a ...
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Scalar implicatures in a signed language

Sign Language & Linguistics, 2014
This paper tests the calculation of scalar implicatures in American Sign Language (ASL) in one of the first experimental pragmatic studies in the manual/visual modality. Both native signers of ASL and native speakers of English participated in an automated Felicity Judgment Task to compare implicatures based on two traditional scales as well as “ad hoc”
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Scalar implicatures and iterated admissibility

Linguistics and Philosophy, 2013
Paul Grice has given an account of conversational implicatures that hinges on the hypothesis that communication is a cooperative activity performed by rational agents which pursue a common goal. The attempt to derive Grice’s principles from game theory is a natural step, since its aim is to predict the behaviour of rational agents in situations where ...
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Ad-hoc and scalar implicatures in children with autism spectrum disorder

Journal of Communication Disorders, 2021
Luca Surian, Greta Mazzaggio, Remo Job   +2 more
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Some Remarks on the Scalar Implicatures Debate

2014
The purpose of this book is to provide a discussion forum for participants in the recent scalar implicatures debate. The bulk of contributions are formal, except for two. Larry Horn’s chapter, which opens the book, provides an interesting and remarkably documented investigation on the phenomenon’s historic development, evoking proto-pragmatic accounts ...
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On the interpretation of scalar implicatures in first and second language

Journal of Pragmatics, 2021
Luca Surian, Greta Mazzaggio
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Scalar implicatures: experiments at the semantics–pragmatics interface

Cognition, 2003
Anna Papafragou, Julien Musolino
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Scalar implicatures in second language acquisition

Lingua, 2010
Roumyana Slabakova
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Scalar implicatures: working memory and a comparison with only

Frontiers in Psychology, 2013
Emmanuel Chemla, Chemla Emmanuel
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