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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2009 Over the last decade, various proposals have been made for supplanting the classical Gricean theory of scalar implicature with conventionalist (i.e. lexicalist or syntax-based) treatments.
Bart Geurts, Nausicaa Pouscoulous
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Investigating the timecourse of accessing conversational implicatures during incremental sentence interpretation [PDF]
, 2013 Many contextual inferences in utterance interpretation are explained as following from the nature of conversation and the assumption that participants are rational.
Breheny, Richard +2 more
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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.
NICOLÁS LO GUERCIO
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The neural computation of scalar implicature [PDF]
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2014 Language comprehension involves not only constructing the literal meaning of a sentence but also going beyond the literal meaning to infer what was meant but not said. One widely-studied test case is scalar implicature: The inference that, e.g., Sally ate some of the cookies implies she did not eat all of them.
Hartshorne, Joshua +3 more
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Upper-Bounded Scalars and Argumentation-in-Language Theory
Anglophonia, 2019 Scalar implicatures, such as the ‘not all’-implicature attached to “some”, have been at the center of debates on the semantics-pragmatics interface ever since Horn (1972).
Laura Devlesschouwer
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Universal Implicatures and Free Choice Effects: Experimental Data
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2009 Universal inferences like (i) have been taken as evidence for a local/syntactic treatment of scalar implicatures (i.e. theories where the enrichment of "some" into "some but not all" can happen sub-sententially): (i) Everybody read some of the ...
Emmanuel Chemla
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Scalar implicatures under uncertainty
, 2020 Studies on judgments under uncertainty argue that individuals reason about the likelihoods of events in ways that are inconsistent with the basic axioms of probability.
Agyemang, Cathy Yaa
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013 For over a decade, the interpretation of scalar expressions under embedding has been a much debated issue, with proposed accounts ranging from strictly pragmatic, on one end of the spectrum, to lexico-syntactic, on the other.
Bart Geurts, Bob van Tiel
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Scalar properties of negative polarity superlatives
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020 Most theories agree that polarity sensitivity must be related to scalarity one way or another. Superlatives are a good example of this, since their “endpoint nature” allows for them to be in negative contexts with a quantitative interpretation.
Ulises Delgado
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Scalar Implicature and Local Pragmatics [PDF]
Mind & Language, 2009 Abstract: The Gricean theory of conversational implicature has always been plagued by data suggesting that what would seem to be conversational inferences may occur within the scope of operators likebelieve, for example; which for bona fide implicatures should be an impossibility. Concentrating my attention on scalar implicatures, I argue that, for the
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