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Ira A. Noveck
Researcher at Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Publications - 76
Citations - 3866
Ira A. Noveck is an academic researcher from Centre national de la recherche scientifique. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pragmatics & Implicature. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 73 publications receiving 3534 citations. Previous affiliations of Ira A. Noveck include École Polytechnique & New York University.
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When children are more logical than adults: experimental investigations of scalar implicature.
TL;DR: Experimental investigations of scalar implicature reveal a consistent ordering in which representations of weak scalar terms tend to be treated logically by young competent participants and more pragmatically by older ones.
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Some utterances are underinformative: The onset and time course of scalar inferences
Lewis Bott,Ira A. Noveck +1 more
TL;DR: The authors showed that participants are less accurate and take significantly longer to answer correctly when instructions call for a Some but not all interpretation rather than a Some and possibly all interpretation, and that the rate of scalar inferences increased as permitted response time did.
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A Developmental Investigation of Processing Costs in Implicature Production
TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that 9-year-olds are more likely than adults to consider true statements such as Some turtles are in... when compared to the negative None when presented to adults.
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Characterizing the time course of an implicature: An evoked potentials study
Ira A. Noveck,Andres Posada +1 more
TL;DR: This work employs Evoked Potential techniques as 19 participants are confronted with sentences that have the potential to produce scalar implicature production, like in Some elephants have trunks, to show that implicatures are part of a late-arriving, effort-demanding decision process.
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The Why and How of experimental pragmatics: The case of ‘Scalar Inferences’
Ira A. Noveck,Dan Sperber +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors illustrate what can be done with experimental approaches to pragmatic issues by considering one example, the case of so-called "scalar inferences", where the experimental method has helped sharpen a theoretical debate and provided uniquely relevant evidence.