The Role of the Lexical Component in the Acquisition of Scalar Implicatures
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Scalar implicatures (SIs) belong to the species of Quantity-based conversational implicatures, which are derived based on the maxim of Quantity 1, which compels speakers to be as informative as is required. If a speaker makes a statement that is less informative than is required in the given context, the hearer may compute a Quantity-based implicature to the effect that the speaker did not provide a more informative statement because she does not know if it holds, as in (1), or the implicature that she knows that it does not hold.
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