Experimental results on embedded implicatures
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This handout reviews recent experimental results concerning the prevalence of embedded scalar implicatures. The focus is on Geurts and Pouscoulous 2009 (henceforth GP09), which argues that these implicatures are marginal at best, and Chemla and Spector 2011 (CS11), which argues that they are robust. I also include brief summaries of the three commentaries on GP09 that appeared in 2010 in Semantics and Pragmatics, to provide some context on how the field is reacting.
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تاریخ انتشار 2012