Pragmatic competence and pragmatic tolerance in foreign language acquisition – revisiting the case of scalar implicatures

<p>Understanding language involves making inferences. One type of inference are scalar implicatures, e.g. understanding that “some X” generally implicates “some but not all X”. Recent research has looked at the derivation of scalar implicatures employing binary sentence judgement tasks investi...

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Main Author: Schulz, JM
Other Authors: Wonnacott, E
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2021
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