Rapid Access to Scalar Implicatures in Adjacency Pair Contexts: Experimental Evidence in Spanish

Experimental 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...

Involvement of prefrontal cortex in scalar implicatures: evidence from magnetoencephalography

The present study investigated the neural correlates of the realisation of scalar inferences, i.e., the interpretation of some as meaning some but not all. We used magnetoencephalography, which has high temporal resolution, to measure neural activity while participants heard stories that included the scalar inference trigger some in contexts that either provide strong cues for a scalar inferenc...

Scalar implicatures in language acquisition: Some evidence from Modern Greek

Scalar Implicatures in Complex Sentences

This article proposes a model for the computation of scalar implicatures in cases where one scalar term is in the scope of another. It shows that a crossproduct of two quantitative scales yields the appropriate scale for many such cases. One exception are cases involving disjunction. Here, it proposes a treatment that makes use of a novel, partially ordered scale for disjunction and capitalizes...

Uli Sauerland Scalar Implicatures in Complex Sentences

This article develops a Gricean account for the computation of scalar implicatures in cases where one scalar term is in the scope of another. It shows that a cross-product of two quantitative scales yields the appropriate scale for many such cases. One exception is cases involving disjunction. For these, I propose an analysis that makes use of a novel, partially ordered quantitative scale for d...