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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Contrastive Inference"”.
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Do you get what I mean? Contrastive Inference and Comprehension in Children
… said. These pragmatic effects are a result of contrastive inference and exhaustification processes that are reliant on whether or not children can reliably access propositional alternatives. Scalar implicatures, adjectives, and it-clefts show evidence that accessibility of alternatives …
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Pragmatic word learning in monolingual and bilingually exposed children
… to speaker generally, rather than to pragmatic inference per se, which relies on reasoning about communicative intentions. In five separate studies, we investigated the ability of a first (n=270, range=4;1- 6;2, mean age=5;3) and second (n=120, range=4;0-5;11, mean age=5;5) sample of monolingual …