When children are more logical than adults: experimental investigations of scalar implicature.
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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.About:
This article is published in Cognition.The article was published on 2001-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 636 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Scalar implicature & Implicature.read more
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Table 3. Participants' reponses to two sets of modal statements after intensive training in Experiment 2. Evaluations of Necessary Conclusion 
Table 2. Percentage of correct responses to modal statements which concerned what was necessarily in the hidden box (i.e., the parrot) and what was possibly in the hidden box (i.e., the bear) in Experiment 1. 
Table 3. Participants' reponses to two sets of modal statements after intensive training in Experiment 2. Evaluations of Necessary Conclusion 
Table 3. Participants' reponses to two sets of modal statements after intensive training in Experiment 2. Evaluations of Necessary Conclusion 
Table 1 A truth table representation of the task in Experiments 1 and 2.
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Handbook of Pragmatics
Laurence R. Horn,Gregory Ward +1 more
TL;DR: The handbook of pragmatics as mentioned in this paper is a handbook for pragmatism, which is used in many of the works mentioned in this article. کتابخانه دیجیتال شاپور اهواز
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Scalar implicatures: experiments at the semantics-pragmatics interface.
Anna Papafragou,Julien Musolino +1 more
TL;DR: The findings indicate that children do not treat all scalar terms alike and, more importantly, that children's ability to derive scalar implicatures is affected by their awareness of the goal of the task.
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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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Pragmatic Language Interpretation as Probabilistic Inference
Noah D. Goodman,Michael C. Frank +1 more
TL;DR: The rational speech act (RSA) framework for pragmatic reasoning is described, which provides a computational framework for integrating linguistic structure, world knowledge, and context in pragmatic language understanding.
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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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