Scalar and ad-hoc pragmatic inferences in children: guess which one is easier.
Several studies investigated preschoolers' ability to compute scalar and ad-hoc implicatures, but only one compared children's performance with both kinds of implicature with the same task, a picture selection task. In Experiment 1 (N = 58, age: 4;2-6;0), we first show that the truth value judgment...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child Language Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 350 - 373 |
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Cambridge University Press
Mar2021
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