Ignorance and Inference: Do Problems with Gricean Epistemic Reasoning Explain Children's Difficulty with Scalar Implicature?

Unlike adults, children as old as 9 years of age often fail to infer that a sentence like, 'Some of the children slept' implies the falsity of its stronger alternative, 'All of the children slept'-an inference referred to as a 'scalar implicature'. Several explanations have been proposed to account...

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Published in:	Journal of Semantics Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 107 - 136
Main Authors:	HOCHSTEIN, LARA, BALE, ALAN, FOX, DANNY, BARNER, DAVID
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Feb2016
Subjects:	Inference (Logic) Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) Reasoning in children Pragmatism Theory of knowledge
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