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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Scalar implicatures"”.
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Scalar implicatures in children: alternatives and relevance
… to arise from a pragmatic inference called Scalar Implicature (SI). Preschoolers typically fail to spontaneously generate SIs without the assistance of training or context that makes the stronger alternative salient. However, the exact role of alternatives in generating SIs remains …
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Scalar implicatures and the grammar of plurality and disjunction
This dissertation explores the role of scalar implicatures in the grammar of plurality and disjunction. I argue that scalar implicatures are relevant not only for the meaning of plurals and disjunctions, but also for their distribution in language. For example, the computation of scalar …
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Cooperative Intentions and Epistemic Reasoning in Scalar Implicature Derivation: A Developmental Perspective
… by focusing on a specific linguistic phenomenon, scalar implicatures, by which listeners enrich the meaning of a given utterance to implicate more than what is explicitly said. Such implicatures arise when a speaker uses a less informative term, such as “some”, when a more informative term like …
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Ignorance and grammar
… (2004)), and the hybrid grammatical theory of scalar implicatures on the other hand (e.g., Fox (2007)) - cannot provide a satisfactory account of disjunctions like Al drank some or all of the beers. As I will show, the meaning of these sentences is characterized by the presence of grammatical …
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Do you get what I mean? Contrastive Inference and Comprehension in Children
… can reliably access propositional alternatives. Scalar implicatures, adjectives, and it-clefts show evidence that accessibility of alternatives facilitates children’s success in these cases. However, it is unclear how 4 to 7 year old children will utilize contrastive inference and …
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Modularity and locality in interpretation
… used to derive candidates for implicature (the scalar alternatives of the asserted sentence), (4) That scalar implicatures and accommodated propositions are the output of Fox's [31] procedure of innocent exclusion, modified so as to consider implicature candidates and accommodation candidates …
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A theory of individual-level predicates based on blind mandatory implicatures : constraint promotion for optimality theory
… tall' because the sentence triggers the scalar implicature that the alternative 'John is always tall' is false and this implicature mismatches with the piece of common knowledge that tallness is a permanent property. Chapter 1 presents the idea informally. This idea faces two challenges. …
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Going beyond our means: A proposal for improving psycholinguistic methods
… in the processing of underinformative ‘some’ scalar implicatures (e.g. Some cats are mammals). The third study uses acceptability judgements, response-time measures, eye-tracking data and qualitative responses to examine the depth of processing in comparative illusion sentences (e.g. More …
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Experimental Investigations into how Children and Adults Process the Implicature Associated with the Scalar Term Some
A scalar implicature is the use of a weak term from a scale to implicate that a stronger term in the scale is not the intended meaning. For example, some is often interpreted as meaning some but not all, whereas logically its meaning is at least one. It is only in recent years that scalar …
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Psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic investigations of scalar implicature
… the representation and composition of meaning in scalar implicatures. Scalar implicature is the phenomenon whereby the use of a less informative term (e.g., some) is inferred to mean the negation of a more informative term (e.g., to mean not all). The experiments reported here investigate how the …