The Role of Working Memory in the Processing of Scalar Implicatures of Patients With Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 A number of studies have demonstrated pragmatic language difficulties in people with Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders. However, research about how people with schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders understand scalar ...
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The Cost of the Epistemic Step: Investigating Scalar Implicatures in Full and Partial Information Contexts [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 We present the first ERP experiments that test the online processing of the scalar implicature some ⇝ not all in contexts where the speaker competence assumption is violated.
Maria Spychalska +3 more
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Asymmetries Between Direct and Indirect Scalar Implicatures in Second Language Acquisition [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 A direct scalar implicature (DSI) arises when a sentence with a weaker term like sometimes implies the negation of the stronger alternative always (e.g., John sometimes (∼ not always) drinks coffee).
Shuo Feng, Jacee Cho
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Scalar implicatures: working memory and a comparison with `only'. [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 A Scalar Implicature (SI) arises when the use of a weaker expression (e.g., some politicians are corrupt) implies the denial of an alternative sentence (e.g., not all politicians are corrupt).
Paul Pierre Marty, Emmanuel eChemla
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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 ...
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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).
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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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Scalar Implicature is Sensitive to Contextual Alternatives [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 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 ...
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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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Slurs and Pragmatic Competition [PDF]
ManuscritoDifferences in informativeness regarding truth-conditional and presuppositional content elicit scalar inferences. Many sentences carry not-at-issue, non-presupposed content, e.g. conventional implicatures.
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