Where truth and optimality part. Experiments on implicatures with epistemic adverbs

In the current paper, we employ a novel Shadow Play Paradigm in order to test Romanian monolingual adults’ sensitivity truth and informativeness investigate their ability derive implicatures with epistemic adverbs. We show that implicature rates adverbs are higher when participants asked reward characters depending on of statements rather than whether what they say is best description situation. Given participants’ task-sensitivity, recommend instructions using optimality criteria as more sensitive method probing into generation.