Embedded implicatures observed: a comment on Geurts and Pouscoulous (2009)
Conventionalist theories of scalar implicature differ from other accounts in that they predict strengthening of embedded scalar terms. Geurts and Pouscoulous (2009) argue that experimental support for this prediction is largely based on sentence comprehension tasks that inflate the frequency with wh...
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| Language: | English |
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Linguistic Society of America
2010-07-01
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| Series: | Semantics and Pragmatics |
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| Online Access: | http://semprag.org/article/view/751 |