How Relevant Is the Sentence Unit to Accessing Implicit Meaning?
This paper examines the relevance of the sentence concept to the understanding of three types of implicitness (presupposition, conversational implicatures, irony). Our experimental protocol involved 105 children (aged 6 to 11) and 82 adults who were asked to read short texts composed of a context ab...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Languages |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/2/42 |