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Relevance without existence: Experimenting on blind implicatures with empty domains

Glossa
The present paper presents experimental evidence confirming that contextually mismatching scalar implicatures can be generated even when quantifiers range over empty domains.
Maria Buyko, Salvatore Pistoia Reda, Vincenzo Moscati   +2 more
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Scalar implicatures of embedded disjunction [PDF]

Natural Language Semantics, 2015
Sentences with disjunction in the scope of a universal quantifier, Every A is P or Q, tend to give rise to distributive inferences that each of the disjuncts holds of at least one individual in the domain of the quantifier, Some A is P & Some A is Q. These inferences are standardly derived as an entailment of the meaning of the sentence together with ...
Crnič, Luka, Chemla, Emmanuel, Fox, Daniel   +2 more
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Thickness Is More Than Affective Valence: Evaluative Language Through the Lenses of Psycholinguistics

Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract Thick terms like “courageous,” “smart,” and “tasty” combine description and evaluation, contrasting with purely evaluative terms like “good” and “bad,” and descriptive terms like “Italian” and “green.” Thick terms intuitively constitute a special class of evaluative language; but we currently do not know whether the psycholinguistic effects of
Giovanni Cassani, Matteo Colombo
wiley   +1 more source

Presupposed ignorance and exhaustification: how scalar implicatures and presuppositions interact [PDF]

, 2017
We investigate the interactions between scalar implicatures and presuppositions in sentences containing both a scalar item and presupposition trigger. We first critically discuss Gajewski and Sharvit’s previous approach.
Sudo, Y
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Does reflection reduce the epistemic side‐effect effect? A new challenge to error accounts

Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 88-118, February 2026.
The epistemic side‐effect effect consists of an asymmetric pattern of knowledge attributions in harm and help cases, paralleling the Knobe effect for intentionality attributions. Error‐based accounts suggest the asymmetries arise from performance errors in harm cases. We challenge this claim with three new experimental studies designed to reduce errors.
Bartosz Maćkiewicz, Katarzyna Kuś, Marta Zaręba, Katarzyna Paprzycka‐Hausman   +3 more
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African Lambdas II: Formal Semantics of African Languages—The Verbal and Clausal Domain

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT The formal semantic analysis of African languages is still a young subfield within theoretical linguistics. Starting with general overviews of the quantifier systems of individual African languages around two decades ago, there now exists a substantial body of fieldwork‐based and autochthonous formal semantic research conducted by both African
Malte Zimmermann
wiley   +1 more source

Scalar Implicatures: a Gricean vs. a Relevance Theory Approach [PDF]

, 2017
Griceans have always supported the idea that scalar implicaturesare Quantity-based generalized conversational implicatures (GCI). With the purpose of explaining this phenomenon, they derived their own principles inspired in Grice’s Quantity maxims and ...
Fernández Gaspar, Teresa
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Computing Scalar Implicatures

Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2008
No abstract.
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Sorries seem to have the harder words

British Journal of Psychology, Volume 116, Issue 4, Page 757-769, November 2025.
Abstract Is someone who says ‘I'm genuinely sorry’ more sorry than someone who says ‘I'm really sorry’? The studies in this paper show that people use longer words when apologizing (Study 1) and interpret apologies with longer words as more apologetic (Study 2). This is in line with signalling accounts that propose that apologizers should incur a cost (
Shiri Lev‐Ari
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Pragmatic Comprehension Competence in Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language: From the Perspective of Speech Acts in Chinese

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 2183-2200, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This study evaluates the pragmatic comprehension competence of Chinese speech acts among adult learners of Chinese as a second language (CSL) and Chinese as a foreign language (CFL). A computerized Pragmatic Listening Judgment Task was adopted to collect accuracy and reaction time data from 88 participants from Mainland China and South Korea ...
Jing Jin, Yang Yang, Jieun Lee
wiley   +1 more source