Embedded implicatures observed: A comment on Geurts and Pouscoulous (2009)  

Oleh:

Clifton, Jr, Charles

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Semantics & Pragmatics (Fulltext) vol. 3 (2010), page 1–13.
Topik: CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURES; implicatures; scalar terms; interpretation; psycholinguistics
Fulltext: 751-1565-1-PB.pdf (240.65KB)

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Conventionalist theories of scalar implicature differ from other accounts in that they predict strengthening of embedded scalar terms. Geurts & Pouscoulous (2009a) argue that experimental support for this prediction is largely based on sentence comprehension tasks that inflate the frequency with which terms like some are strengthened. Using a picture verification task, they observed no strengthening of embedded scalars. We present data from a multiple-choice picture verification task that is more sensitive to interpretation preferences, and find that readers do show a preference for strengthened interpretations even in embedded phrases. These data cast doubt on Geurts and Pouscoulous’s empirical arguments against the existence of embedded implicatures.

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