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...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Semantics Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 107 - 136 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Feb2016
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