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Thoughts and Utterances
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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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Are Generalised Scalar Implicatures Generated by Default? An On-Line Investigation into the Role of Context in Generating Pragmatic Inferences.
TL;DR: The results suggest that these scalar implicatures are dependent on the conversational context and that they show none of the autonomy predicted by the Default view.
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A unitary approach to lexical pragmatics: relevance, inference and ad hoc concepts.
Deirdre Wilson,Robyn Carston +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a unified account of the lexical adjustment process using relevance theory has been proposed, and an inferential account of this process using the framework of relevance theory is presented.
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Metaphor, relevance and the 'emergent property' issue
Deirdre Wilson,Robyn Carston +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use relevance theory to explain how emergent properties are derived from metaphorical utterances, which are neither standardly associated with the individual constituents in isolation nor derivable by standard rules of semantic composition.
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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.