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Lewis Bott
Researcher at Cardiff University
Publications - 43
Citations - 1514
Lewis Bott is an academic researcher from Cardiff University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sentence & Scalar implicature. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 43 publications receiving 1344 citations. Previous affiliations of Lewis Bott include University of York & Centre national de la recherche scientifique.
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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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Distinguishing speed from accuracy in scalar implicatures
TL;DR: The authors compared implicit upper-bound interpretations (some, but not all) with lower-bound interpretation (some [and possibly all] with a response deadline procedure to estimate speed and accuracy independently.
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Exaggerations and Caveats in Press Releases and Health-Related Science News.
Petroc Sumner,Solveiga Vivian-Griffiths,Jacky Boivin,Andy Williams,Lewis Bott,Rachel Adams,Christos A. Venetis,Christos A. Venetis,Leanne Whelan,Bethan Hughes,Christopher D. Chambers +10 more
TL;DR: For health and science news directly inspired by press releases, the main source of both exaggerations and caveats appears to be the press release itself, however there is no evidence that exaggerations increase, or caveats decrease, the likelihood of news coverage.
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Possibly All of that and Then Some: Scalar Implicatures Are Understood in Two Steps.
TL;DR: This article used a mouse-tracking technique in a sentence verification paradigm to test different accounts of the effect of scalar implicatures in sentence comprehension tasks and found that mouse paths initially moved towards the true target and then changed direction mid-flight to select the false target.
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Making disjunctions exclusive.
TL;DR: This work investigates how extra effort applied to disjunctive statements leads to a pragmatic interpretation of “or”, or but not both, and hypothesized that conditions encouraging more processing effort would give rise to more pragmatic inferences and hence to more exclusive interpretations of the disjunction.