Child-Like Adults: Dual-Task Effects on Collective vs. Distributive Sentence Interpretations

In this work, we consider a recent proposal that claims that the preferred interpretation of sentences containing definite plural expressions, such as “The boys are building a snowman,” is not determined by semantic composition but is pragmatically derived via an implicature. Plural expressions can...

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Main Authors: Anna M. B. de Koster, Petra Hendriks, Jennifer K. Spenader
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.556120/full