Rapid Access to Scalar Implicatures in Adjacency Pair Contexts
Experimental Evidence in Spanish
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5900880 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rafael Loredo (0000-0003-1308-7259), Juan E Kamienkowski (0000-0002-5725-6539), Virginia Jaichenco (0000-0002-7388-5001) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 48 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages4030048 |
| OpenAlex | W2954035980 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
A conversational implicature arises when there is a gap between the syntactically and semantically encoded meaning of a sentence and the pragmatic meaning that is inferred in an actual communicative situation. Several experimental studies have approached the processing of implicatures and examined the extent to which the derivation of the pragmatic meaning is effortful, especially in the case of generalized implicatures, where the inferred meaning seems to be the most frequent one. In this study, we present two experiments that explore the processing of scalar implicatures with algunos 'some' in adjacency pair contexts through an acceptability judgment task and a self-paced reading task. Our results support the claim that the access to the meaning of some as only some is context sensitive. Moreover, they also indicate that adjacency pair structure contributes to making that meaning rapidly available
Adjacency list · Algorithm · Context (archaeology · Implicature · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Natural language processing · Pragmatics · Scalar (mathematics · Sentence · Task (project management · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Mathematics · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Philosophy
Presumptive Meanings
Are generalised scalar implicatures generated by default? An on-line investigation into the role of context in generating pragmatic inferences
Incrementality and Prediction in Human Sentence Processing
Simultaneous Inference in General Parametric Models
“Some,” and possibly all, scalar inferences are not delayed
When People Are More Logical Under Cognitive Load
Processing Scalar Implicature
Online interpretation of scalar quantifiers
Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4
Likert scales, levels of measurement and the “laws” of statistics
The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics
Relevance Theory
Speech Acts
A validation of Amazon Mechanical Turk for the collection of acceptability judgments in linguistic theory
Opening up Closings
Modelling the N400 brain potential as change in a probabilistic representation of meaning
Interpreting numerals and scalar items under memory load
Pragmatics
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |