Development of Quantitative and Temporal Scalar Implicatures in a Felicity Judgment Task [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Experimental investigations into children’s interpretation of scalar terms show that children have difficulties with scalar implicatures in tasks. In contrast with adults, they are for instance not able to derive the pragmatic interpretation that “some ...
Walter Schaeken +2 more
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The Understanding of Scalar Implicatures in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Dichotomized Responses to Violations of Informativeness [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This study investigated the understanding of underinformative sentences like “Some elephants have trunks” by children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Walter Schaeken +2 more
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Some Pieces Are Missing: Implicature Production in Children [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Until at least 4 years of age, children, unlike adults, interpret some as compatible with all. The inability to draw the pragmatic inference leading to interpret some as not all, could be taken to indicate a delay in pragmatic abilities, despite evidence
Sarah F. V. Eiteljoerge +4 more
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Children's Acquisition of Homogeneity in Plural Definite Descriptions [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Plural definite descriptions give rise to homogeneity effects: the positive The trucks are blue and the negative The trucks aren't blue are both neither true nor false when some of the trucks are blue and some are not, that is, when the group of trucks ...
Lyn Tieu, Manuel Križ, Emmanuel Chemla
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Scalar Implicature is Sensitive to Contextual Alternatives. [PDF]
Cogn Sci, 2023 AbstractThe quantifier “some” often elicits a scalar implicature during comprehension: “Some of today's letters have checks inside” is often interpreted to mean that not all of today's letters have checks inside. In previous work, Goodman and Stuhlmüller (G&S) proposed a model that predicts that this implicature should depend on the speaker's ...
Zhang Z +4 more
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Scalar Diversity, Negative Strengthening, and Adjectival Semantics [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Previous research has demonstrated great variability in the rates of scalar inferences across different triggers (Doran et al., 2009; van Tiel et al., 2016). In the current study, we show that variation is more systematic than previously thought.
Nicole Gotzner +3 more
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Comprehension of Generalized Conversational Implicatures by Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This study evaluates the comprehension of generalized conversational implicatures (GCI) in children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD), using a GCI test constructed based on the Levinson model, which distinguishes between three types of ...
Gemma Pastor-Cerezuela +4 more
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Sources of cognitive cost in scalar implicature processing: A review
Frontiers in Communication, 2022 Research in Experimental Pragmatics has shown that deriving scalar implicatures involves effort and processing costs. This finding was robust and replicated across a wide variety of testing techniques, logical terms, populations, and languages.
Ahmed Khorsheed +2 more
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A closer look at the sources of variability in scalar implicature derivation: a review
Frontiers in Communication, 2023 For more than 20 years, studies in experimental pragmatics have provided invaluable insights into the cognitive processes involved in deriving scalar implicatures and achieving inferential comprehension.
Ahmed Khorsheed, Nicole Gotzner
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Scalar Implicature, Hurford's Constraint, Contrastiveness and How They All Come Together
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 Disjunction with two scalar items, such as some or all of the books, has been regarded as evidence for the grammatical theory of scalar implicatures (e.g., Chierchia et al., 2012).
Satoshi Tomioka
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