Piecewise Structural Equation Modeling of the Quantity Implicature in Child Language.
We review an array of experimental methodological factors that either contribute to or detract from the measurement of pragmatic implicatures in child language. We carry out a truth value judgment task to measure children's interpretations of the Spanish existential quantifier algunos in implicature...
| Publicado en: | Language & Speech Vol. 66; no. 1; pp. 35 - 68 |
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| Formato: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Mar2023
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