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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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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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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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Projecting Presuppositions with Scalar Implicatures [PDF]

, 2019
I present a system which reconciles free choice permission effect with other scalar implicatures. The core idea is to cluster together alternatives which are obtained by similar transformations of the original sentence (e.g., replacement of a given item ...
Chemla, Emmanuel
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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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Scalar implicatures and the grammar of plurality and disjunction [PDF]

, 2013
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-139).This dissertation explores the role of scalar implicatures in the ...
Ivlieva, Natalia
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Investigation of Scalar Implicatures of Binus University Students [PDF]

, 2011
Scalar implicatures are based on a range of quantifiers ordered in terms of informational strength, for example in quantity: some, most, all; in frequency: sometimes, often, and always.
Karjo, Clara Herlina
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Scalar Implicatures with Alternative Semantics [PDF]

Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2006
No abstract.
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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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