From Meaning to Inference: Evidence for the distinction between lexical semantics and scalar implicature in online processing and development
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Acknowledgments – This work benefited from conversations with members of the Cambridge Conference on Experimental Pragmatics, Lab for Developmental Studies, and the MIT-Harvard number reading group. We are grateful to Ayo Adigun and Hila Katz for their assistance in testing and data coding.
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