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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"implicatures"”.
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Temporal implicatures
This dissertation proposes a theory of temporal implicatures, and applies it to the study of tense in Mbyá Guaraní. It is composed of two parts. In the first one, I discuss the analyses of temporal implicatures developed by Musan (1995, 1997) and Magri (2009). Although I argue in favor of Magri's …
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Implicatures in the DP domain
… these phenomena are reducible to the theory of implicatures. Second, I argue that an implicature-based approach to these phenomena offers a better empirical coverage of the relevant effects than previously achieved. Capitalizing on Magri (2009, 2011, 2014, and subsequent works), I will offer a …
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Scalar implicatures in children: alternatives and relevance
Utterances like "Megan ate some of the cupcakes" are typically interpreted as "Megan ate some but not all of the cupcakes". Such an interpretation is thought to arise from a pragmatic inference called Scalar Implicature (SI). Preschoolers typically fail to spontaneously generate SIs without the …
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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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A theory of individual-level predicates based on blind mandatory implicatures : constraint promotion for optimality theory
… surprising nature of these special mismatching implicatures within the recent grammatical framework for scalar implicatures of Chierchia (2004) and Fox (2007a). Chapter 3 shows how this implicature-based account can be extended to other properties of individuallevel predicates, such as …
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Ignorance and grammar
… 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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Joint inference in pragmatic reasoning
… a challenge to these accounts of pragmatics: M-implicatures [45] and embedded implicatures which violate Hurford's constraint [49, 16]. While techniques have been developed for deriving M-implicatures, Hurford-violating embedded implicatures pose a more fundamental challenge to the models' …
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Children’s development of Quantity, Relevance and Manner implicature understanding and the role of the speaker’s epistemic state
… between quantity, relevance and manner implicatures; whether word learning by exclusion is a pragmatic forerunner to implicature, or based on a lexical heuristic; and whether reasoning about the speaker’s epistemic state is part of children’s pragmatic competence. This thesis contributes …
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Cooperative Intentions and Epistemic Reasoning in Scalar Implicature Derivation: A Developmental Perspective
… 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 “all” is …
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Do you get what I mean? Contrastive Inference and Comprehension in Children
… 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 exhaustification when …
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Interpretation of Overt Pronouns in L1 and L2 Japanese: The Role of Context
… as triggering particularized conversational implicatures, i.e., that their interpretation must be calculated on an utterance-by-utterance basis based on the specific context of each utterance (as opposed to generalized conversational implicatures, which can be cancelled by context but are not …
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Pragmatic competence in the target language : a study of Iranian learners of English
… to measure the knowledge of conversational implicatures and presuppositions of Farsi learners of English. The results indicate that Iranian learners of English lack the knowledge of conversational implicatures and presuppositions in English.
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Verbal irony as conversational implicature
… to and different from ordinary conversational implicatures. It is similar in that it results from the speaker's observance of the motivating principles, and thus violation of Grice's maxims. It is different because 1)It is seen as the violation of the Maxim of Quality alone, while in ordinary …
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Transcending inaccessibility : reassessing the Action Painters in the light of rhetorical theory
… comparison of painted gestures to conversational implicatures and guidelines are given for establishing meaningful and relevant dialogues with the paintings, presupposing the importance of an intangible context as defined by the reconstruction of authorial intent and anticipated readership.
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Positive Polarity and Exhaustivity in Sinhala: A Study of its Implications for Grammar
… scope or non/specificity effects, free/no choice implicatures and de re/dicto readings of -hari and -da disjunctions/indefinites in matrix and overt modal/quantifier contexts based on a distribution requirement (DR) derived by way of exhaustification with respect to alternatives of a disjunction …
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Is Superman a Sense or a Superhero?
… Saul's proposed solution based on conversational implicatures and argues against it. Then I introduce a different solution called the Shifty-Fregean solution, which states that proper names in some contexts refer to their senses rather than the reference. The paper argues that this solution is …
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Pragmatics and Grammatical Descriptions (Japanese)
… whether they are speech act properties, implicatures, beliefs and intentions of the speech participants, or what not. In analyzing such data linguists, in my view, are constantly faced with two problems; one is how to distinguish pragmatic matters from purely grammatical aspects of the …
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The roles of linguistic meaning and context in the concept of lying
… and mislead and how false explicatures and false implicatures are categorized. In exploring the variability in lie judgments, I gather evidence that support amendments to the discussion of lie judgments in the linguistic literature and additionally draw conclusions relevant to the broader …
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The interpretation and use of numerically-quantified expressions
… that comparative quantifiers give rise to implicatures that are conditioned both by granularity and by prior mention of the numeral, and demonstrate these implicatures empirically. Finally I discuss the predictions that the model makes about the frequency of quantifiers in corpora, and …
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Modularity and locality in interpretation
… 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 together. I argue for claim (1) in Chapter 2 by arguing that …
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