Distinguishing speed from accuracy in scalar implicatures
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Distinguishing speed from accuracy in scalar implicatures
Scalar implicatures are inferences that arise when a weak expression is used instead of a stronger alternative. For example, when a speaker says, ‘‘Some of the children are in the classroom,’’ she often implies that not all of them are. Recent processing studies of scalar implicatures have argued that generating an implicature carries a cost. In this study we investigated this cost using a sent...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Memory and Language
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0749-596X
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2011.09.005