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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Experimental pragmatics"”.
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Learning the Meaning of Quantifiers from Language and Vision
… and processing have received attention from experimental pragmatics, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience. Very often their meaning has been tied to that of numbers, amounts, and proportions, and many attempts have been made to place them on ordered scales. In this thesis, I study …
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The interpretation and use of numerically-quantified expressions
This thesis presents a novel pragmatic account of the meaning and use of numerically-quantified expressions. It can readily be seen that quantities can typically be described by many semantically truthful expressions – for instance, if "more than 12" is true of a quantity, so is "more than 11", …
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'Coffee is not coffee at twelve o'clock at night': Exploring the motivations for speaking indirectly
… in the use of ORI and their production of ORI in experimental conditions; the widespread use of ORI in some SS scenarios and near absence in others; the addition of politeness markers to SS ORI utterances; and the dispreference for Intimacy-based uses of ORI. In Chapter 8, the experiments are …
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Children’s development of Quantity, Relevance and Manner implicature understanding and the role of the speaker’s epistemic state
… speaker is informative. On a Gricean approach to pragmatics, this implicated meaning – a quantity implicature – involves reasoning about the speaker’s epistemic state. This thesis examines children’s development of implicature understanding. It seeks to address the question of what the …
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Minding Our Manners: Investigating The Nature Of Gricean Manner Implicature Using Psychological Priming Techniques
… of Quantity, has enjoyed broad theoretical and experimental investigation, MI—triggered by violations of the Maxim of Manner (e.g., “Be perspicuous”)—remains comparatively underexplored. Moreover, there is no consensus between popular models of conversational implicature derivation concerning …
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Cooperative Intentions and Epistemic Reasoning in Scalar Implicature Derivation: A Developmental Perspective
… both through reviews of the literature and experimental studies investigating the role of inhibitory control, intention-reading and perspective-taking in implicature derivation between the ages of 2 and 17.