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How speaker cooperation and knowledge prime scalar implicatures

Language and Cognition
Pragmatic theories generally agree that the derivation of implicit meaning depends on the assumption that the speaker is cooperative and knowledgeable, as well as the contextual relevance of the implicature.
Anna Teresa Porrini, Luca Surian, Nausicaa Pouscoulous   +2 more
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Pragmatica sperimentale: il caso delle implicature scalari

Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio, 2012
It is only in recent times that pragmatics has started to use experimental methods in order to test contrasting theories on communicative phenomena.
Claudia Bianchi
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Corrigendum: Early ERP Evidence for Children's and Adult's Sensitivity to Scalar Implicatures Triggered by Existential Quantifiers (Some). [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2021
Panizza D, Onea E, Mani N.
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Raising and resolving issues with scalar modifiers

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013
We argue that the superlative modifiers at least and at most quantify over a scale of answers to the current question under discussion (and in this sense, resolve issues), and that they draw attention to the individual possibilities along the scale (and ...
Elizabeth Coppock, Thomas Brochhagen
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Early ERP Evidence for Children's and Adult's Sensitivity to Scalar Implicatures Triggered by Existential Quantifiers (Some). [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2021
Panizza D, Onea E, Mani N.
europepmc   +1 more source

Maintaining Context or Reacting to It? Cognitive Control Strategy and Awareness of the “Question Under Discussion” in Scalar Implicature Derivation

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali
This experimental study examines whether the Question Under Discussion (QUD) modulates the comprehension of pragmatic implicatures in context. Using brief two-sentence communicative exchanges, participants are asked to judge the acceptability of a target
Glenn Starr
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Conjoined Predication and Scalar Implicature

CoRR
Magri (2016) investigates two puzzles arising from conjunction. Although Magri has proposed a solution to the second puzzle, the first remains unresolved. This first puzzle reveals a hidden interaction among quantification, collective/concurrent interpretation, and contextual updating dimensions that have yet to be explored.
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Scalar Implicatures with Alternative Semantics [PDF]

Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2006
No abstract.
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Scalar and Ignorance Inferences Are Both Computed Immediately upon Encountering the Sentential Connective: The Online Processing of Sentences with Disjunction Using the Visual World Paradigm

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
Accounts based on the pragmatic maxim of quantity make different predictions about the computation of scalar versus ignorance inferences. These different predictions are evaluated in two eye-tracking experiments using a visual world paradigm to assess ...
Likan Zhan
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Computing Scalar Implicatures

Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2008
No abstract.
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