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Glossa, 2018 This paper reports on five experiments investigating intervention effects in negative polarity item (NPI) licensing. Such intervention effects involve the unexpected ungrammaticality of sentences that contain an intervener, such as a universal quantifier,
Emmanuel Chemla, Lyn Tieu, Milica Denić
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2011 In Magri 2009a, I argue that a sentence such as '#Some Italians come from a warm country' sounds odd because it triggers the scalar implicature that not all Italians come from a warm country, which mismatches with the piece of common knowledge that all ...
Giorgio Magri
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Presupposed ignorance and exhaustification: how scalar implicatures and presuppositions interact [PDF]
, 2017 International audienceWe investigate the interactions between scalar implicatures and presuppositions in sentences containing both a scalar item and presupposition trigger.
Spector, Benjamin +3 more
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 A prevalent, but to date untested, assumption about lexicalized scalar implicatures such as those from some to not all, is that they fall into the class of GCIs and as such, constitute a homogeneous class of highly regularized and context-independent ...
Judith Degen
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On the Quantitative Scalar or-Implicature
Synthese, 2005 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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GAME THEORY AND SCALAR IMPLICATURES [PDF]
Philosophical Perspectives, 2013 Much of philosophy of language and linguistics is concerned with showing what is special about language. One of Grice’s (1967/1989) contributions, against this tendency, was to treat speech as a form of rational activity, subject to the same sorts of norms and expectations that apply to all such activity.
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Scalar Implicature is Sensitive to Contextual Alternatives
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 ...
Zheng Zhang +4 more
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Patients with psychosis struggle with scalar implicatures [PDF]
Schizophrenia Research, 2018 Pragmatic language difficulties in people with psychosis have been demonstrated repeatedly but one of the most studied types of pragmatic language, i.e. scalar implicatures (SIs), has not yet been examined in this population. SIs are a special kind of pragmatic inferences, based on linguistic expressions like some, or, must.
Martien, Wampers +4 more
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Processing Presuppositions and Implicatures: Similarities and Differences
Frontiers in Communication, 2018 Presuppositions and scalar implicatures are traditionally considered to be distinct phenomena, but recent accounts analyze (at least some of) the former as the latter.
Cory Bill +3 more
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Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Metaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still others that they describe moral facts or properties.
Amie L. Thomasson
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