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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Cancelling the Maxim of Quantity: Another challenge for a Gricean theory of Scalar Implicatures [PDF]
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014 Grice (1975) pointed out that the ignorance inferences normally drawn when disjunctive sentences are uttered are cancelled when it is presupposed that speakers are not going to provide all of the relevant information that they have available (e.g., in ...
Danny Fox
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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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Do Scalar Implicatures Prime? The Case of Exclusive 'or'. [PDF]
, 2021 Understanding language requires comprehenders to understand not only what speakers say, but what speakers might imply. Scalar items (e.g. some, numerals) often invite comprehenders to compute scalar implicatures, pragmatically strengthening the semantic meaning of scalar items by negating their stronger alternatives.
Husband, Edward Matthew, Patson, Nikole
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Acquisition of scalar implicatures
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2018 AbstractOur 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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Some inferences still take time: Prosody, predictability, and the speed of scalar implicatures [PDF]
Cognitive Psychology, 2018 Yi Ting Huang, Jesse Snedeker
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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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