The Best Response Paradigm: A New Approach to Test Implicatures of Complex Sentences

There is a controversial debate about which implicatures are triggered by logically complex sentences. This article introduces a novel experimental paradigm based on a game-theoretic design to test these implicatures. In particular, we investigated two cases adjudicating between different accounts o...

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Main Authors: Nicole Gotzner, Anton Benz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Communication
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcomm.2017.00021/full