Intonation and Pragmatic Enrichment: How Intonation Constrains Ad Hoc Scalar Inferences
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Intonation and Pragmatic Enrichment: How Intonation Constrains Ad Hoc Scalar Inferences.
Pragmatic inferences require listeners to use alternatives to arrive at the speaker's intended meaning. Previous research has shown that intonation interacts with alternatives but not how it does so. We present two mouse tracking experiments that test how pitch accents affect the processing of ad hoc scalar implicatures in English. The first shows that L+H* accents facilitate implicatures relat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Language and Speech
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0023-8309,1756-6053
DOI: 10.1177/0023830917716101