Background Materials for "Embedded implicatures?!?"
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Experimental results on embedded implicatures
This handout reviews recent experimental results concerning the prevalence of embedded scalar implicatures. The focus is on Geurts and Pouscoulous 2009 (henceforth GP09), which argues that these implicatures are marginal at best, and Chemla and Spector 2011 (CS11), which argues that they are robust. I also include brief summaries of the three commentaries on GP09 that appeared in 2010 in Semant...
متن کاملExperimental Evidence for Embedded Scalar Implicatures
Scalar implicatures are traditionally viewed as pragmatic inferences which result from a reasoning about speakers’ communicative intentions (Grice 1989). This view has been challenged in recent years by theories which propose that scalar implicatures are a grammatical phenomenon. Such theories claim that scalar implicatures can be computed in embedded positions and enter into the recursive comp...
متن کاملScalar implicatures of embedded disjunction∗
Sentences with disjunction in the scope of a universal quantifier, Every A is P or Q, tend to give rise to distributive inferences that each of the disjuncts holds of at least one individual in the domain of the quantifier, Some A is P & Some A is Q. These inferences are standardly derived as an entailment of the meaning of the sentence together with the scalar implicature that it is not the ca...
متن کاملEmbedded Implicatures and Optimality Theoretic Pragmatics
In a recent paper, Chierchia (2004) distinguishes global and local approaches to conversational implicatures and claims that several puzzles concerning implicatures in complex sentences can best be explained by a local approach. This conflicts with the Neo-Gricean view which is global in nature. I will argue that both approaches can coexist in optimality theoretic pragmatics where the proper pl...
متن کاملEmbedded Implicatures as Pragmatic Inferences under Compositional Lexical Uncertainty
How do comprehenders reason about pragmatically ambiguous scalar terms like some in complex syntactic contexts? In many pragmatic theories of conversational implicature, local exhaustification of such terms (‘only some’) is predicted to be difficult or impossible if the result does not entail the literal meaning, whereas grammatical accounts predict such construals to be robustly available. Rec...
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عنوان ژورنال: Semantics and Pragmatics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1937-8912
DOI: 10.3765/sp.2.4a