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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 2336-2347, November 2025.ABSTRACT Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often face challenges in pragmatic language use, particularly in foreign language learning contexts, yet the specific factors influencing pragmatic competence in these environments remain underexplored.
Gülşah Tıkız‐Ertürk +1 more
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Demonstratives, definite descriptions and non-redundancy [PDF]
, 2020 In some sentences, demonstratives can be substituted with definite descriptions without any change in meaning. In light of this, many have maintained that demonstratives are just a type of definite description.
Blumberg, Kyle Hammet
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Child Development, Volume 96, Issue 5, Page 1807-1824, September/October 2025.ABSTRACT To see whether communicative‐based multimodal skills (compared to non‐communicative motor skills) predicted complex language skills, this study examined the predictive power of multimodal and motor skills on narrative and expressive pragmatic abilities across two groups. Participants were children with typical development (N = 88, Mage = 5.34,
Júlia Florit‐Pons +4 more
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Language Learning, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 898-929, September 2025.Abstract A handful of second language (L2) studies have explored bidirectional pragmatic transfer: forward pragmatic transfer—the influence of learners' first language (L1) on their L2—and reverse pragmatic transfer—the impact of learners' L2 on their L1.
Ying Zhang (she/her)
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Global positive polarity items and obligatory exhaustivity
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014 I argue for a distinction between two types of positive polarity items (PPIs) which has not been recognized so far. While for some PPIs, anti-licensing is a strictly local phenomenon, for other PPIs anti-licensing should be stated as a global condition.
Benjamin Spector
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Truth‐Value Judgment Tasks in Second Language Research
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 5, September/October 2025.ABSTRACT This paper provides a focused review of truth‐value judgment tasks (TVJTs) as a method for eliciting interpretations in adult second language learners. We present the historical perspectives, the rationale for their use, the nature of the knowledge they target, and critical design considerations. Additionally, we discuss their effectiveness in
Shaohua Fang, Elaine J. Francis
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Filosofie DnesIn this paper I discuss a common ambiguity in the specification of the content of implicatures either in terms of mental states “BELS(ψ)” or in terms of simple propositions “ψ”.
Matej Drobňák
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'And' or 'or': General use coordination in ASL
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013 In American Sign Language (ASL), conjunction (‘and’) and disjunction (‘or’) are often conveyed by the same general use coordinator (transcribed as “COORD”).
Kathryn Davidson
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The effect of childhood multilingualism and bilectalism on implicature understanding [PDF]
, 2017 The present study compares the performance of multilingual children speaking Cypriot Greek, Standard Modern Greek, and English (and sometimes an additional language), bilectal children speakers of Cypriot Greek and Standard Modern Greek, and Standard ...
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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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