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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

An Experimental Comparison between Presuppositions and Indirect Scalar Implicatures [PDF]

, 2014
We compare two aspects of meaning, namely the presupposition of stop in the scope of negation (John didn’t stop going to the movies on Wednesday., → John used to go to the movies before Wednesday.) and scalar implicatures associated with strong scalar ...
Romoli, Jacopo
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Multimodal Skills, but Not Motor Skills, Predict Narrative and Expressive Pragmatic Skills in Children With Typical Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

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, Mariia Pronina, Alfonso Igualada, Pilar Prieto, Courtenay Norbury   +4 more
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Bare Numerals and Scalar Implicatures

Language and Linguistics Compass, 2013
Abstract Bare numerals present an interesting challenge to formal semantics and pragmatics: they seem to be compatible between various readings (‘at least’, ‘exactly’, and ‘at most’ readings), and the choice of a particular reading seems to depend on complex interactions between contextual factors and linguistic ...
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The Bidirectionality of Pragmatic Transfer in Chinese English Language Learners' Compliment Responses: The Effects of Second Language Proficiency

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)
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Scalar implicatures processing: slowly accepting the truth (literally)

, 2019
The processing of scalar implicatures has been extensively studied in recent years (Bott and Noveck 2004; Bott et al. 2012; Breheny et al. 2006; Huang and Snedeker 2009, Chemla and Bott 2013 among others).
Bill, Cory, Schwarz, Florian, Romoli, Jacopo   +2 more
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Scalar implicatures as implicatures of compatibility

, 2022
Las implicaciones de escalado se definen tradicionalmente como interpretaciones de límite superior de términos de escala débiles, en las que asumen la fuerza de información máxima de sus escalas, negando términos más informativos (por ejemplo, "solo unos pocos pero no todos") por el trabajo de la primera cantidad de grice submáxima.
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Against Grammatical Computation of Scalar Implicatures [PDF]

Journal of Semantics, 2006
Recently, several authors have argued that Gricean theories of scalar implicature computation are inadequate, and, as an alternative, one author has proposed a grammatical system for computing scalar implicatures. The present paper provides arguments, counter to the'claims of these authors, that Gricean reasoning can account for the implicatures of ...
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