Pragmatic tolerance: implications for the acquisition of informativeness and implicature.
Recent investigations of the acquisition of scalar implicature report that young children do not reliably reject a sentence with a weak scalar term, e.g. 'some of the books are red', when it is used as a description of a situation where a stronger statement is true, e.g. where all the book...
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Elsevier
2011
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