Scalar Inferences in the Acquisition of Even

Scalar inferences are ubiquitous in human reasoning. Correspondingly, language has many means of expressing and encoding them. One of these means is the focus particle even, which utilizes scalar inferences to signal the pragmatic status of asserted content as noteworthy. The vehicles that even empl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gowda, Yadav, Newman, Elise, Rosenstein, Leo, Hackl, Martin
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Published: Frontiers Media SA 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132658