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The acquisition of scalar implicatures [PDF]
, 2010 Gottinger Schriften zur Englischen Philologie Band 3 Wer bei „scalar implicatures“ an eine exotische Zierfischart denkt und vor seinem geistigen Auge bunte Segelflosser majestatisch zwischen Steinen und Grunpflanzen dahinschweben sieht, der irrt sich sehr: Scalar implicatures bezeichnen keine Buntbarschart, sondern gehoren in den Bereich der Pragmatik.
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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
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Testing theories of temporal inferences: Evidence from child language
Glossa, 2018 Sentences involving past tense verbs, such as “My dogs were on the carpet”, tend to give rise to the inference that the corresponding present tense version, “My dogs are on the carpet”, is false.
Alexandre Cremers +6 more
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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
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This study evaluates the comprehension of generalized conversational implicatures (GCI) in children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD), using a GCI test constructed based on the Levinson model, which distinguishes between three types of ...
Gemma Pastor-Cerezuela +4 more
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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
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How speaker cooperation and knowledge prime scalar implicatures
Language and CognitionPragmatic 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 +2 more
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Processing strategies for scalar implicatures
, 2014 This dissertation investigates the processing of scalar implicatures. I report results from a series of studies using different scalar expressions (modals and quantifiers), which show that (a) scalar implicatures are generally accessed rapidly; and (b ...
Atanassov, Dimka
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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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