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Distinguishing speed from accuracy in scalar implicatures [PDF]
Journal of Memory and Language, 2012 Scalar implicatures are inferences that arise when a weak expression is used instead of a stronger alternative. For example, when a speaker says, “Some of the children are in the classroom,” she often implies that not all of them are.
Lewis Bott, Todd M Bailey
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Pragmatics and Society
Abstract Scalar implicature is a very interesting topic in linguistic pragmatics. This study is intended to argue that, based on the Cognitive Grammar paradigm, scalar implicature is contextually activated by schematic networks. From a hierarchical perspective, those linguistic units sharing the
Yanfei Zhang, Nina Liang, Shaojie Zhang
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Abstract Scalar implicature is a very interesting topic in linguistic pragmatics. This study is intended to argue that, based on the Cognitive Grammar paradigm, scalar implicature is contextually activated by schematic networks. From a hierarchical perspective, those linguistic units sharing the
Yanfei Zhang, Nina Liang, Shaojie Zhang
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Acquisition of scalar implicatures
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2018AbstractOur study investigates the second language (L2) acquisition of scalar implicaturessomeandall. We set out to answer two research questions based on three theoretical accounts, the lexical, pragmatic and syntactic accounts. In an experiment we include English and Japanese native speakers, and intermediate and advanced Japanese L2 learners of ...
Neal Snape, Hironobu Hosoi
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Scalar implicature and contrastive explanation
Synthese, 2007I argue for a subsumption of any version of Grice’s first quantity maxim posited to underlie scalar implicature, by developing the idea of implicature recovery as a kind of explanatory inference, as e.g. in science. I take the applicable model to be contrastive explanation, while following van Fraassen’s analysis of explanation as an answer to a why ...
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2014
Children younger than 5½ years of age do not draw inferences based on the quantity of information expressed (e.g. the inference that ‘some of the animals are sleeping’ implies ‘not all the animals are sleeping’) at the rates that adults do. Explanations of this difficulty include limited processing resources, shallow lexical entries and lack of adult ...
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Children younger than 5½ years of age do not draw inferences based on the quantity of information expressed (e.g. the inference that ‘some of the animals are sleeping’ implies ‘not all the animals are sleeping’) at the rates that adults do. Explanations of this difficulty include limited processing resources, shallow lexical entries and lack of adult ...
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The balance of scalar implicature
2015This dissertation aims to provide new insight into the properties that underlie scalar implicature (SI) processing. Previous experiments have investigated the time course of SI processing and whether or not it is a costly, resource-demanding process, but not what the resources have been specifically used to do, and when.
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Discourse Structuring Questions and Scalar Implicatures
2013In this paper we discuss the interdependence of scalar implicatures and discourse structuring questions. We show that even prototypical cases of scalar implicatures can depend on an explicitly or implicitly given Question under Discussion. Particularly, we argue against the idea that scalar implicatures are automatically generated by the logical form ...
Anton Benz, Fabienne Salfner
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Intermediate Scalar Implicatures
2014In this chapter, I am concerned with the explanation of scalar implicatures; specifically, with the question whether scalar implicatures should be explained in the pragmatics or in the semantics of a sentence.* In this discussion, I use the terms implicative and scalar implicative simply as labels for a certain range of facts.
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The Roots of (Scalar) Implicature
2014A 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, Communication, and Language Evolution
2010This 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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