The effect of intonation on a type of scalar implicature  

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Fretheim, T.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 18 no. 1 (Jan. 1992), page 1-30.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JPR/18 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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In accordance with his general analysis of scalar terms, Laurence Horn has argued that the lower bound (at least n) of a cardinal is due to its conventional meaning, while the upper bound (at most n) is due to a conversational implicatum. This paper argues that the upper bound can be set by utterance. Otherwise the meaning of cardinals is salient, or optimally rel;evant, in the context of structure of one language, Norwegian, signals when a cardinal is intended by the speaker to be understood as contextually salient. Contextually salient elements of an utterance arte contained in those parts of utterance that are eitheir 'thematized' or 'background' by intonational means. The facts presented are seen to corroborate the hypothesis that Norwegian theme/rheme articulation is grammatically underdetermined.

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