Scalar Implicature, Hurford's Constraint, Contrastiveness and How They All Come Together

Processing Scalar Implicature: A Constraint-Based Approach

Three experiments investigated the processing of the implicature associated with some using a "gumball paradigm." On each trial, participants saw an image of a gumball machine with an upper chamber with 13 gumballs and an empty lower chamber. Gumballs then dropped to the lower chamber and participants evaluated statements, such as "You got some of the gumballs." Experiment 1 established that so...

It's all starting to come together

Chemical, genetic and cell biology tools have been used to probe which RNA-protein granules behave like liquids and which behave like solids.

Scalar Implicature

(Analytical) accuracy of blood glucose meters and patients: how do they come together?

Having been ignored for the most part, analytical accuracy of blood glucose (BG) meters is now the subject of a considerable series of studies (manuscripts). While the results of these studies show considerable differences between meters, they also show that many meters have good analytical quality, i.e., in the hands of highly trained technicians and optimally controlled environmental conditio...

Informativeness, Relevance and Scalar Implicature

1. Introduction The main topic of this paper is the phenomenon of scalar implicature. Typical examples are given in (1)-(4): (1) a. Bill has got some of Chomsky's papers. b. The speaker believes that Bill hasn't got all of Chomsky's papers. (2) a. There will be five of us for dinner tonight. b. There won't be more than five of us for dinner tonight. (3) a. X: I like Mary. She's intelligent and ...